Kirchlechner Leon (2 results)

hardcover. Condition: Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione di 800 es. numerati. 32 fotografie stampate a piena pagina . Cm 21,6 x 29,4. pp. 64. . Perfetto (Mint). . Prima edizione di 800 es. numerati. . Book.

1. Aufl./ 800 Ex. With no horizon, one's view into the distance is impeded. Scanning, searching, one's gaze comes to a standstill in Leon Kirchlechner's photographs. The eye may slow, but it doesn't find repose. The peace is not contemplative: it is restless. The restricted field of view has a narrowing effect. It makes the room strangely dislocated, denies me the geographical coordinates that would give me a feeling of safety. And so, even as the onlooker, I remain dislocated in the usually centrically, often symmetrically composed images. I can't make sense of this centrality. Nor is it reassuring. Although it gives me pause, it doesn't offer anything for me to grasp. It's not the enjoyable, thought-provoking stillness that many works of art inspire. Rather, it's an oppressive, constricting stillness, one that causes alarm. - `I was immediately enthralled by what I saw,` explains Leon Kirchlechner. `An inky black hole opened up suddenly and incomprehensibly in the cold, bare ground. It appeared to swallow the light. The unstructured, almost two-dimensional black was deceptive; the thought of falling into it made me shudder. How deep was it? What was in it? Was there anything? Or nothing? I expected something. I suspected something. I knew that nothing would happen and yet I was as if hypnotised. Filled with an illusory fear I stood still and looked at what I could not see.` (Sehr gut erhalten! / in very good condition) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 ill. OLeinen / Hardcover (cloth).