Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

href="http://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1988_7-001.jpg"> In order to make this post I asked myself: what was the piece of officially approved art that evoked the strongest emotion in myself ever? It was "Twilight Arch" by James Turrell for sure, which I saw some years ago in Frankfurt. First of all this is about the physical reaction of our body, because we simply enjoy shiny colourful things like neon lights or the television screens. This is more complex of course but I don't want to go into detail here because the important thing for me was something else. The glowing surface here is not a surface but a room behind a window. While entering the room you see it as a surface but as soon as you get closer to it you will realise that the surface is a hole in the wall. And for a fraction of a second this installation fulfils the ultimate promise of media in general: It becomes the thing itself. For this short moment it is the imitation of reality and at the same time reality itself. This may sound very deep but it isn't - If you think about the movie "the ring" you presumably visualise the woman coming out of the screen. This scene is the most important one of the movie because of the very same reason.