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Winter Auctions 24.11–25.11.2023
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Wesely, Michael
Born 1963 Munich, lives and works in Berlin.
«Echo Cliffs at Page».
C-print on aluminium-dibond behind acrylic glass (Diasec). Typographically imprinted signature lower left, dated 2000 and titled.
H 124,5,
The Echo Cliffs are a well-known and impressive geological deposit in northern Arizona, located about 50 miles south of the town of Page, not far from the Grand Canyon National Park.
For this Wesely uses specially built cameras with slit-shaped openings instead of a round lens. «With the consequence that the incoming light rays can no longer spread out evenly, as would be the case with a round aperture, they instead begin to overlap in such a way that only streaks of light are recorded by the film. [...] The images completely refuse to be read. [...] Inevitably, our perception shifts to the purely aesthetic qualities: We thus begin to look at the images as if they were abstract paintings.» Martina Fuchs, Zur Sichtbarmachung des Unsichtbaren, in: Clemens Fahnemann (Ed.), Michael Wesely, Photographien, Photographs, Berlin 2001, pp. 13 - 14.
Provenance: private collection
Literature: Clemens Fahnemann (Ed.), Michael Wesely, Photographien, Photographs, Karlsruhe 2001, p. 165.
Exhibition: Michael Wesely, American Landscape, Berlin, Galerie Fahnemann, 14.11. - 08.12.2001.
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