Art:21 | Florian Maier-Aichen | Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode "Fantasy," premiering on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).

"Fantasy" presents four artists — Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, and Florian Maier-Aichen — whose hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime works transport us to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness.

Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen's digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation. He embraces difficult techniques, chooses equipment that produces accidents such as light leaks and double exposures, and uses computer enhancements to introduce imperfections and illogical elements into images that paradoxically feel visually right, though they are factually wrong. Always experimenting, he marries digital technologies with traditional processes and films (black-and-white, color, infrared, and tricolor), restoring and reinvigorating the artistry and alchemy of early photography.

Learn more about Florian Maier-Aichen: http://www.art21.org/artists/florian-maier-aichen

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• contemporary
• florian maier-aichen
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[willberain]

wonderful preparation for the great work day:)

[berlin45ers]

german baby

[jhalfaro]

i LOVE that camera!