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Artist Feature
Every week an artist is featured whose single image was published by Der Greif. The Feature shows the image in the original context of the series.
Mirjana Vrbaski - Verses of Emptiness
Jan 15, 2014
Verses of Emptiness explores the genre of portraiture by stripping bare layers of visual character and personality and replacing them with a naked silence and candid bareness. Removed from temporal and spatial context, the series is an inquiry into the depth of meaning behind a face; behind that which surpasses culture and expression and reverberates deeper, more mysterious substance. Connected together in a cavernous silence, the sitters of Verses of Emptiness share a common presence: austere, unembellished and evasive. www.mirjanavrbaski.com
Artist Blog
The blog of Der Greif is written entirely by the artists who have been invited to doing an Artist-Feature. Every week, we have a different author.
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Mane Radmanovic
Jan 19, 2014 - Mirjana Vrbaski
Mane is a visual artist from Belgrade. He once described his photos as the 'scenography of routine': "It's as though routine never seemed this lively and gentle before. As though I re-learn it over and over again." www.maneradmanovic.com
Tanja Deman
Jan 18, 2014 - Mirjana Vrbaski
TanjaDemanisaCroatianvisualartist. Fromherwebsite: "Tanjaworkswithphotography, videoandlightinstallation. Herinvestigationofcollectivepsychologyandspacefocusesonrecentlybuiltlegacy, specificallyinspacesforcollectivesandhowtheyrelatetonature. Herimagesarevisualmetaphorsthatstepintopuzzlingsitesandsituationslayeredwithhistory. Shecapturestheawkwardsocio-politicaldynamicsunderthesurfaceofboththebuiltandnaturalenvironment." www.tanja-deman.com
Karin Apollonia Müller
Jan 17, 2014 - Mirjana Vrbaski
Another photographer I stumbled upon and whose work inspired me! "Portraying disconnectedness is Müller’s hallmark. She is described as a photographer that distances herself, physically and emotionally, from her subject. [...] She grew up on a boat on the Rhine river, where her father was a captain. 'On that boat I saw the world floating by every day,' she remembers. 'Different landscapes were passing by all the time. It made me feel rootless and restless as an adult. I didn’t dislike that feeling, it was just something I was experiencing and I didn’t see it expressed much.'" www.karinapolloniamueller.com
Inka & Niclas
Jan 16, 2014 - Mirjana Vrbaski
I recently discovered this photographer duo at an exhibition in Berlin. I find their images mesmerizing and love that they are so visual, rather than political or intellectual. From their website: "Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström live and work in Stockholm but together they travel, seeking places to continue their practice of creating a different representation of nature, using the photographic image to capture their landscapes. Integral to their practice is the wish to consider what it is in a sunset over an ocean or the view of a mountain range that is so emotionally spellbinding? What is it that drives us to go out there and collect these images over and over again? Inka and Niclas’ practice evolves around an exploration of the different components that constitutes the powerful psychological effects of different natural phenomena and landscapes." www.inkaandniclas.com