Perspectives

Imre Kinszki, Martin Zeller

What connects these artists is their search for unusual perspectives. Imre Kinszki (1901 – 1945) is considered one of the most consistent champions of New Objectivity among Hungarian artists. In search of his own pictorial language, he discovered the simple beauty of things as conceived in Neues Sehen. The play of light and shadow became his most distinctive means of expression for recording the structure and mentality of Budapest from new perspectives. For Diagonal Mirror, Martin Zeller immersed himself in the city of Hong Kong. The lack of a horizon and a vanishing point both in Chinese painting and in the dense Asian urban landscape, and the resulting and the equality of spaces, create a type of spatiality that is completely artificial to us. Starting from this experience, Zeller photographed the urban landscape in extreme formats. He installs details overlapping diagonally on the wall. Zeller has been influenced by Hungarian photographers (Brassaï, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy) and thus stands in direct correspondence with Kinszki’s work.