Renaissance series

Renaissance series

Photographic work ‘Renaissance’ shows a series of landscapes in subjects and composition strongly relating to the cultural époque of 15th and 16th century. Although taken in the Austrian Alps or at the seaside nowadays, the images seem to be allusions to Brueghel and other Flemish painters like Joachim Patinir and Lucas van Valckenborch, or to Venetian painters who managed to coalesce figures with landscape for the first time, even let figures move to the picture’s margin and finally made landscape an actual topic and genre. Impressed by these famous Renaissance paintings, I examined their perspectival techniques and searched for similarities and differences in today’s spatial and landscape perception. In using a Hasselblad film camera with square format she accomplished a different approach, experimenting with perspective and angle of view – and succeeded in creating a seemingly mythological pictorial world, equally subtle and opulent.