ArtnowTV - Jan-Oliver Wenzel

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Statement

Looking at Jan Wenzel's photographs, you get a feeling of utter tranquillity. Free of the hectic pace of everyday life, of kitsch and the ornate, free of noise and colour, they celebrate unusual perspectives. The two major themes of nature and architecture have the common factor of being reduced to the essential, to the basic message of the objects. The architecture themes live from clear forms and stark contrasts -- the interaction of light and shadow, their endless change between light and dark are the determining forces. The represented angles of vision, with surprising perspectives, bestow the architecture with a frequently abstract character: it isn't possible to recognise the representational perceived shapes at first glance. Really concentrating, it seems as though not only the observer is holding his breath -- but the whole world does.

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