Joerg Maxzin - Living Sculpture
LUMAS Editionsgalerie Berlin - Nähe Ku' damm
Joerg Maxzin: Butterfly
© LUMAS & Joerg Maxzin
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When contemplating the photographs of Joerg Maxzin (born 1965), we sense the effect of his original training as a sculptor in wood for what at first sight appears as a blurred shot of real human beings is in fact the replication of small-scale sculptures as viewed through the lens of the camera. He models these figures specially in plasticine and then photographs them in his studio.
A distinctive characteristic of Maxzin's work is the blurred focus, which becomes in his hands an artistic beauty of the highest order. This leaves us contemplating the open question whether simulated reality is not in fact a reality in its own right or how is there any way of distinguishing the one from the other?
In these concentrated photographic compositions, the boundary between shadows and persons often seems to be imperfectly defined. As if they were one and the same, origin and effect melt into one and the laws of physics are suspended. People become schemata, schemata become bodies, bodies become linear forms. Everything is in flux it all floats and vibrates, in a meditative mode of elegance to which the titles contribute an additional level of significance.
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Artist(s)
Joerg Maxzin
Duration of the exhibition
17.10. - 25.11.2008
Vernissage
16.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Mo-Sa 10-20 h, So 13-18 h
Location
LUMAS Editionsgalerie Berlin - Nähe Ku' damm
Fasanenstraße 73
10719 Berlin
T 0049 30 88627601
Public transport connections
U Uhlandstraße
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