Part of Tino Pohlmann's Arena series, a body of work that frames the Tour de France as the world's largest stadium, one of the last major sporting events spectators can enter and experience firsthand without paying admission. This image of the Col du Galibier captures one of the race's most significant summits, a place Pohlmann describes as a threshold where athletes stage their battles against the mountain itself. The surrounding landscape, marked by thousands of spectators, motorhomes, and roadside names painted for the riders, becomes a living record of the fusion between nature and human endurance that Pohlmann has documented for seventeen years.
"The mountain never forgives a rider's weaknesses and exacts a merciless toll in suffering." Roland Barthes
Archival Pigment Print
160 cm × 120 cm
Edition of 3 + 1 EA
Signed and numbered by the artist
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