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joseph carlson

  • dium project
    dium

    continues a tradition in painting that is thousands of years old, depicting actual shapes exactly as they are found in reality. This reality is the sky over the inner courtyards of Paris.

  • WandBild

    is a series of images on one topic. To all intents and purposes, they are photographs. Conceptually, however, these photographic images are similar to that of painting. The motif that runs through the series is unusual walls.

  • velum

    The concept behind velum is similar to that of wall. It is a series of photographic images on one topic that verges on being painting. However, while wall focuses on bare walls, velum explores things that are concealed.

  • numerus
    numerus

    transposes the principles of objet trouvé to painted works of art. While the camera detects images, painted pictures emerge from the very beginning, paving the way for pictorial compositions. The concept explores the aesthetic dimension of numbers.

  • Enrique Pena Nieto
    Head Lines

    are lines through which leading individuals express themselves. Signatures are transformed into abstract images and reduced to their essence; to the inherent features of the motions, the living nature of the moment, the personal and individual; to the physiognomy of the signatories’ hand movements.

  • Brandzeichen
    Burn Marks

    is a collection of photographs based on a singular theme. Symbols of destruction are both signifier and sign, emblems of dreadful premonition. The discernible objects are at once sensual and distinct, even as their context remains abstract and ambiguous.

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