Picture "Dahlias 7" (2018)
Picture "Dahlias 7" (2018)
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ars mundi Exclusive Edition | limited, 199 copies | numbered | signed certificate | reproduction on Alu-Dibond behind acrylic glass | size 90 x 90 cm | suspension device
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Picture "Dahlias 7" (2018)
Reproduction on Alu-Dibond behind 3 mm thick acrylic glass. Limited to 199 copies and numbered. Hand-signed certificate included. Size 90 x 90 cm. With suspension device. Due to the smooth surface, mirror effects may occur depending on the incidence of light. ars mundi Exclusive Edition.
About Thomas Kolenbrander
Thomas Kolenbrander has been working as a photographer for many years with great success and has received several awards for his work. In 2016, his entry in the renowned "Glanzlichter" competition even took first place out of 22,000 submitted photographs from 38 nations.
In addition to pure landscape photography, he also works artistically in the area between experimental photography and collages. Using special shooting techniques and various image processing methods, he creates extraordinary colour-intensive and surreal-looking still lifes. In some of his works, for example, he incorporates the effects of fluorescence photography. "Some flowers that are illuminated with UV light of a certain wavelength give off a unique light. In an elaborate process, the pictures are created in many steps using my very own techniques," Kolenbrander explains his working process. The results are fascinating flower arrangements that appear from a foreign world.
In many of Kolenbrander's works, the symmetrical reproduction of his motifs also plays a major role. Even if objects from nature do not need any intensification, "the visual fireworks of special beauty", as Kolenbrander describes it, are obtained by partly multiple reflections. For each photograph, he focuses on the motif and the moment individually. The extraordinary character of his photographic artworks comes from the artistic processing afterwards, with which he transfers the motifs into a new dimension – or, as he puts it, makes them "powerful, expressive and probably unique in their kind".
This form of presentation comes from the world of professional photographers and exhibition organizers. More and more artists create their works for this aluminium medium in high-tech composite. The metallic surface creates a synthesis with the colours. White areas of the image are shimmering matt-metallic, depending on the light source. They let the picture look classy and puristic. Thanks to the direct colour pigmentation the details are rendered accurately. Alu-Dibond is long-lasting and resistant.
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A process for producing images by the action of light, which became widely known in 1839. Photography quickly became the basis for the expanding image industry that pushed the manually produced pictures, paintings and drawings into the background.
The avant-garde painting adopted photographic form elements, to ensure its painting validity. In the 1920s, many avant-garde painters devoted themselves to photography. With his photographs and photomontages, the American painter Man Ray developed new means of expression in modern art, the so-called "rayographs".
The Pop Art of the 1960s varied and alienated the public photograph with the help of technical means. The American pop artist Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) is the most famous master of this art movement with his images and image series created in this way.