Metamorphosis is the title of the new series by Austrian photographer Josef Fischnaller, who is best known for his elaborate re-enactments of famous Renaissance and Baroque paintings, large-format tableaux whose genre of photography is not immediately apparent.
In Josef Fischnaller's new series, the photographs undergo a complete transformation and experience a unique, fantastic METAMORPHOSIS.
And what a variety! Different colors, brighter, more intense. These bouquets seem almost abstract, the portraits sometimes like mythical creatures.
In his new works, Josef Fischnaller has also approached transience technically. More than ever, he moves away from his métier, classical photography, and incorporates the processes of flow, runoff, and yellowing as stylistic devices. Using a technique that he keeps somewhat secret, he creates photo prints with colors that are not actually suitable for this purpose. Thus, these images are also merely snapshots, and he reproduces an extremely fleeting state, a relic, in small editions.
Fascinated by the frenzy of colors and forms, we immerse ourselves in these sometimes vast, ethereal worlds of images, puristically presented in powerful simplicity on aluminum Dibond under a captivatingly glossy acrylic layer. METAMORPHOSIS! Photographer Josef Fischnaller has never come so close to painting before.
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