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Nothing
True at All


What do you get to see? It's entirely unclear.  Pictures in any case.  Pictures of overwhelming penetration, pictures that expose their effects free of care.  Pictures that don't reflect a direct encounter or memory. Pictures that were somehow photographically generated yet neither "capturing", depicting, nor pretending to bear any relationship whatsoever to the encounter, rendering the photo in its story as the absolute "representational medium".









An example: two mighty buck elk in confrontation congealed in the acuity of a chimerical close-up. The powerful palms share the same stark illumination as the warm earth-brown fur of the muscular creatures; giants in startling meticulousness. The eruptive seen played out in a flat stage-like landscape oddly decolorized, transitioning into black and white. The ambiance of the combat motif is interspersed with elements neither localizing nor rendering the occurrence in the foreground believable. —A storm of light, the flight of stones, the diagonal agitation of spherical commotion. The image space is void of relational depth to the animals' bodies. It is acutely subjected to another perspective as the urgency of the presentation is theatrically accentuated by something revealing itself as a mere backdrop. As such the elk seem to be posing in a diorama in the foreground of a painted primeval world, sharply contoured and collage-like separated from that which is bestowing drama to the occurrence. This however, artificiality makes an all the more pressing demand for the promise of reality. The intersection of the image planes, the continuous focus, the brokenness of coloring always steers the eye most tormentingly back to the colossal central motif and to the question of what one is actually dealing with.






The image space is void of relational depth to the animals' bodies. It is acutely subjected to another perspective as the urgency of the presentation is theatrically accentuated by something revealing itself as a mere backdrop. As such the elk seem to be posing in a diorama in the foreground of a painted primeval world, sharply contoured and collage-like separated from that which is bestowing drama to the occurrence.












Index




No. TitelYearMaterialSizeEditionPriceAvailability 
A-01-001 Daily Distraction of Living2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0001

A-01-002 Still Positive2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-003 Sunny Side up2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-004 The Spirit Departs2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-005 Falling Down #12015
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,000sold out

A-01-006 Knowing There Will Be Spring2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-007 Ninty Percent of Your Dreams Are in Vain2015   
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-008 Nordic Walking2015   
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0002

A-01-009 Luck Is Always Somewhere Else2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-010 Based on True Facts2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-011 Cold War2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-012 The Best Is Yet to Come2016
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-013 Somebody you know is a threat2015
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle120x90cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-014 Being at the Wrong Time at the Right Place2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-015 Homeland security2015
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-016 Where Is Alice2015
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-017 Content Manager of Soul2015  
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-018 Kill Your Darling2015   
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0003

A-01-019 Common ground with a stranger2016    
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004

A-01-020 Astray2016
FineArt Print:  Hahnemühle90x120cm4+1€7,0004






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Daily Distraction of Living
Still Positive
Sunny Side up
The Spirit Departs
Falling Down #1
Knowing There Will Be Spring
Ninty Percent of Your Dreams Are in Vain
Nordic Walking
Luck Is Always Somewhere Else
Based on True Facts
Cold War
The Best Is Yet to Come
Somebody you know is a threat
Being at the Wrong Time at the Right Place
Homeland security
Where Is Alice
Content Manager of Soul
Kill Your Darling
Common ground with a stranger
Astray