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SHIRANA SHAHBAZI
Stilleben 33-2009 Aus der Serie: Flowers, Fruits & Portraits, 2009 c-print auf Aluminium
Alternating between abstraction and representation, Shahbazi’s vividly colored pictures are made in the crisp style of commercial studio photography, without the aid of digital tools. To make her abstract compositions, she photographs painted pedestals and other geometric volumes.
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ALEXANDER JAMES
The Great Leveller (from Vanitas)
2010
Self-taught British photographer Alexander James (b. 1967) is known for using analogue cameras to photograph objects and sculptural scenes placed underwater.
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JIM HODGES
A line to you (1994)
Changing things (1997)
Flowers, tokens of both romance and death, are a recurring motif. Elsewhere he has strung indestructible silk blooms into streamers, or fixed them to walls to create poignant, sweetly kitschy works like Changing Things, which seems partly a momento mori, and partly a defiant freezing of time.
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JIM HODGES
Ghost
2008
Glass sculpture in multiple parts.
Hodges’ delicate works explore themes of fragility and temporality in a highly original and poetic vocabulary.
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ANYA GALLACCIO
preserve ‘beauty’
1991–2003
During the period in which preserve ‘beauty’ is displayed, the flowers wither and die, and this decay process is visible to viewers through the glass. Viewers experience the installation through their sense of smell, as well as visually.
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MARC QUINN
Garden
2000
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MARC QUINN
Eternal Spring (Sunflower) II
1998
In the frozen flower sculptures, which range from single works to the large-scale, walk-through installation Garden (2000), Quinn captures what he has described as “the purest and most magical transformation of reality into art”. In these sculptures, real flowers in a perfect state of bloom have been plunged into frozen silicone oil. As the flowers freeze they die, but in doing so, they become a perfect, eternal image of themselves .
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David LaChapelle und Marc Quinn führen nur auf den ersten Blick mit ihren beeindruckend herrschaftlichen Blumen-Arrangements das barocke Sinnbild für Üppigkeit fort, das erst bei genauerer Betrachtung einen bedrohlich verschlingenden Charakter offenbart.

MARC QUINN
Icelandic Lava Plane
2015
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UNDER THE VOLCANO. OL DOINYO LENGAI, TANZANIA
2009
oil on canvas
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Beim Anblick einer Blüte denken wohl die wenigsten daran, dass sie eigentlich ein Geschlechtsorgan betrachten. Im Angesicht eines Stilllebens von Robert Mapplethorpe kommt man um diesen Gedanken hingegen kaum herum.

Anemone, 1989

Gardenia, 1978
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Autopolitur, Sekundenkleber, Kunstharz - wenn Lebensmittel auf Bildern wirklich appetitlich aussehen sollen, greifen Foodstylisten tief in die Trickkiste.

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