Multiples and Abstract Portraits

MULTIPLE PORTRAITS I am particularly interested in developing new aesthetics for portraits. The subtle play of the sender and receiver, and the presentation of changes (metamorphoses). The series "Multiple portraits" interrogates the multidimensional nature of the human being. This is paired with a great interest in exploring new possibilities of expression and complex combinations of painting, photography and digital processing. The same way the compound eye of a fly captures different details which are then put together, I also want to create new notions and insights of the female portrait. At first one may be reminded of a cubistic conception of pictures, which I carries further by utilizing new technologies and assembling new creations. Continuing on this path, the portraits gain complexity, not only artistically, but also charismatically. Befitting this new artistic technique, some pictures of the series were produced and sealed using a novel process involving Liquid Gloss* (hand-cast synthetic resin). (* Liquid Gloss is a unique, new and high-end finishing for photography, which I discovered 2 years ago for my work. A crystal-clear top layer of hand-cast resin (2-3 millimeter), which rounds off gently at the edges of the artwork, lends it a unique brilliance and depth and an incomparable appearance of the surface. The gently flowing edges provide a sculptural effect that gives the work a sensual aesthetic. It looks organic and alive. Liquid Gloss is extremely durable and of long-lasting elasticity.) MULTIPLE PORTRAITS BECOME ABSTRACTS PERSONALITIES The digital editing of the‘Multiple Portraits’ led to a metamorphosis in which the portrayed persons were developed further and further into abstraction. The painted portraits were the prototypes, fictitious in their original state, composed of different parts of faces. They were the mothers and the beginning. Changing profoundly during iterations of photographic and painterly treatment, they become independent and new personalities. Figuratively speaking, originals, or mothers, became daughters, cousins, and more distant relatives, all of them sharing the same DNA, but composed in different ways. Through digital processing and the deliberate detachment from the genre "portrait", abstract images were created that contain the visual genome of the portrait but no longer represent it. Painting becomes digital photography. The technique: a complex combination of painting, photography and digital editing, fine art printing and transposition onto canvas.