ROBBY MÜLLER – LIKE SUNLIGHT COMING THROUGH THE CLOUDS
2020-07-06Like Sunlight Coming Through the Clouds displays Müller’s keen eye for capturing beauty and light in the most unlikely of places. Renowned as a pioneering cinematographer for his collaborations with Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier on films such as Paris, Texas (1984), Down by Law (1986) and Breaking the Waves (1996), Müller also built up an extensive archive of Polaroid images. Müller never left home without a camera to hand and after being introduced to Polaroid photography on set in 1973, the Polaroid camera would join him on his travels.
The show features a wide range of Polaroid photos as edition prints, amongst them never before exhibited works, that through their larger format show the incredible details Müller was able to capture in the instant medium. The works depict Müller playing with and investigating the properties of light and colour during the moments in between filming, with a preference for shooting at twilight, the “blue hour” at which natural and artificial light meet. In the triptych Austin Texas, while shooting Honeysuckle Rose for instance, Müller can be seen experimenting with different forms of light within his hotel room as the light outside changes.
Opposite – During ‘Honeysuckle Rose’, Austin, Texas, 1979
Exhibition runs through to August 22nd, 2020
Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016PL Amsterdam
Netherlands
