Photographer Andreas Gefeller sees the world through a strange lens,
offering the viewer pictures that at first glance seem composed of
abstract, color-saturated elements and only later resolve into
something completely familiar--chairs on a beach, lines on pavement,
grass on an urban plaza--but yet not. In Soma, the series that first
brought him to attention, Gefeller documented major tourist centers
using extremely long night exposures, thereby producing effects that
underscore the artificiality of the locales. Bereft of people and
sunlight, of any life at all really, the depicted beachfront hotels
and pools take on a strangely threatening character. In Supervisions,
his most recent series, Gefeller employs a complicated photographic
technique to scan the surfaces of urban spaces, creating
extraordinary images more akin to hard-edge abstract paintings than
landscape photography. Composites of hundreds of individual shots,
these puzzling, striking works appear as bird's eye views or
observations shot from fantasy angles. A testament to Gefeller's
interest in the twilight zone that becomes ever denser between
reality and fiction, Supervisions reveals itself to the viewer in
stages, offering up elements that appear first as abstractions, then
as familiar elements of our environment, and finally as impossible
visions of the world that surrounds us. Edited by Roland
Nachtigäller. Essay by Stephan Berg. Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in./144
pgs / 80 color.
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