Gallery-Artology

Pictute 099, Print on hand-made-paper, 30 cm x 40 cm, Edition 35, courtesy of the artist

[...Försterling subtly inserts the fold of the female organs into the blossoms, so that the flower portraits glow suggestively from within and exude a sensuous power...] Natalie Scheerle-Walz: Woman and Flower. In: Hermann Försterling “FloraMagica”. Eppingen 2006, S.5.

With “Edgebomber” by Susigames you realize media-art with yourself. It is yours to make the “sculpture” perfekt to play your best game.

In another photo-installation by Daniel T. Braun (BangBang No.1) the surface of a big flower photography is transformed to a relief!

Rosemarie Fiore, “Firework Drawing #10”, 2009, lit firework residue on paper, collage, 83 in x 66 1/2 in (210.82 cm x 168.91 cm), courtesy of the artist and Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, NY

In difference to Daniel T. Braun, who traces fire by exploding rockets (”Rocketogrames”) through light directly on photographic colorpaper, Rosemarie Fiore is drawing with fireworks on paper. Her brushes are explosives like smoke bombs and magic whips, her colors are the particles of the smoke and the sparcling of the fire.  “She then collages the best effects onto large sheets of the same paper-creating works, that are like op art visions of the cosmos.” [Robert Shuster]. The performative chance of the color application is guided to the finding.

Daniel T. Braun, “Rafael Phython”, 2006, ca. 210 cm x 130 cm, Rocketogram / Color-Photogram, unique, courtesy of the artist

“Runder Ball vor schwarzer Farbe 10″, 2008

68 cmx68 cm, C-Print by Andreas Friedrich

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To reflect the media of photography, especially in an analog manner, is still a topic of the “Karlsruher Schule”. The photo-artists absolved the Hochschule für Gestaltung beside the ZKM / center for and media in Karlsruhe. They seem to have found an emancipated way to work with photography in art. Beside the long tradition of the German “Becher Schule” the “Karlsruher photo-school” reanimates photo-art in a creative way. Emerging artists from this school are:

Daniel T. Braun, Andreas Friedrich, Sven Erik Klein, Bettina Metzen and others we are going to post.

A Waterway Journey by Ulay – Patagonia 2009

“…during this expedition, which is one of the pilot-projects of ‘Waterfonie’, we mainly focused on documenting water related issues such as clouds, water, glaciers, ice and icebergs, and testing the mobile phone’s multimedia facilities, in particular photographic- and video recordings. We were equipped with 2 Nokia N82 mobile phones (Carl Zess lens) and a Leica Trinovid 8×20 binocular. The binoculars were at times used as a tele-lens in front of the Nokia camera lens (notice the round images).

In our minds we carried the desire to make water and the water related phenomena beautiful: water through the artful eye…” [Uwe Laysiepen]

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A short video-introduction about the art of  Daniel T. Braun.

The artist uses the media of photography in differnet ways: sometimes with a classical 5x7 inch large format camera, builds a camera with a horses eye or builds a lense of ice, in a performative way like in the “Rocketogram-Seria” where he lets explode rockets directly on photographic colorpaper, in a sculptural way, in a staged or pictorial manner…