Dioramas
KOMET BERLIN Galerie
Torsten Solin: "Am Weiher"
2006 © courtesy of KOMET BERLIN Galerie
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In his exhibition 'Dioramen' ['Dioramas'], Torsten Solin presents us with photos in light boxes showing attractive young women, naked and buxom, in a pleasing attitude in the midst of a surreal landscape. Sometimes their faces are concealed by animal masks, sometimes they are surrounded by stuffed animals or dolls in the open air. Is this crazy and deranged, pornographic and provocative, or is it the outcome of artistic calculation?
Torsten Solin's 'Dioramas' series comprises compositions of erotomanic dream images, the distilled content of which focuses on themes like beauty and vanitas rerum, drawing its inspiration from dualisms like those of eros and thanatos, existence and non-existence, reality and illusion. Solin's scenic arrangements of nature permit us an insight into a subjective world that exists in its own right, tempt us towards voyeurism, encourage us to go on dreaming and invoke in a time of increasing alienation, 'discorporation' and worldwide homogenisation a new florescence of romanticism, based on the ongoing search for the true and the beautiful.
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Artist(s)
TORSTEN SOLIN
Duration of the exhibition
8.11. - 20.12.2008
Vernissage
7.11.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Di-Sa 12-18 h
and by arrangement
Location
KOMET BERLIN Galerie
Brunnenstr. 165
10119 Berlin
T 0049 30 44324177
Public transport connections
M8 + M12 Brunnenstr./Invalidenstr.;
U8 Bernauer Straße;
U8 Rosenthaler Platz
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