Transition und Symbiose
Photographs are "stopped,
preserved time", documents of the vanishing, the attempt to stop the flow
of time, to preserve something.
My
pictures concentrate on the essentials, become excerpts, snippets of the real.
In their reduction, they distance themselves from reality and become a reality
of their own through gestural overpainting or technical layering, becoming
lines, shapes and sounds: a simultaneous symbiosis and metamorphosis. I free
the pictures from their original surroundings and insert them into an unreal
space. They are documents of the vanishing, which through layering are not only
given an extension of life but also a new life.
My
photographs are therefore no longer a mirror of reality for me, but rather, and
here the painter speaks from me, a raw material that I use for the abstract
picture composition.
The
pictures, which are born from the painterly or technical processing of my
photographic material, show abstract new pictorial worlds that invite the
viewer to explore what they see.
As a painter, photographer and
digital/mixed media artist I am interested in studying and exploring images of
natural textures and objects, manipulating their visual information, layering
them and creating new perceptual experiences.
I
take my own photos, most often macrophotos and use several digital image
manipulation programs and applications to achieve a result that matches my
vision. My aim is to question our familiar habits of perception by means of my
abstract pictorial compositions. Therefore I try to utilize randomness to
transcend the limits of logic and create image layering combinations that are
unexpected and visually exciting.
The
digital process allows me to freely explore creative options and choices, take
risks and expand the range of possible imagery.
I
especially enjoy observing the results of blending layers of semi - transparent
images and watching what it can become. An underlying image is able to achieve
an unpredictable complexity of color and texture by adding visual information
from different layers or even a final painting layer.
My photographic art is based on minimalism and abstraction.
Digital means of expression are superimposed with haptic design elements, which
is why I call it an art hybrid. In my media works I combine dramatic
colourfulness, compositional dynamics, playfulness and sensuality. My works
resemble purely formal, gestural and fragmentary painting, but are based on
dramatically staged macro-motifs: a detail or structure becomes the starting
point for a new working process. I try to evoke the mysterious aura of light
and shadow and the deceptive aesthetics of digital superimposition.
