The Armory Show is America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Ruzicska Gallery presents:
Josef Hoflehner (born 1955) is an Austrian photographer known for his black-and-white landscape images. He was voted Nature Photographer of the Year 2007, and his photographs are regularly exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, Berlin, London and other world cities.
Giovanni Castell
(*1962, Munich, Germany) has yet to be discovered in the USA. His night shots show the mysterious beauty of the natural nocturnal world. Like his daytime photographs they are characterised by a romantic approach to landscape.
Giovanni Castell’s latest series shows skilfully staged Free Fights. These works contain allusions to Rembrandt, Caravaggio, El Greco and other great baroque masters and once again display the mastery of the artist in dealing with light.
Olaf Otto Becker
1959, Luebeck-Tavemuende, Germany) has been a succesful communication designer for years. With the turn of the Millennium. Since he started his second career as a photographer. With his large-format 8 × 10 in. camera he is working in a manner that is similar to that of an impressionist landscape painter. His main topic is the beauty of light, but with the titles including the GPS-data of the spots and places his works are showing, his painterly color photographies also document the fragile and vulnerable beauty of arctic nature.
Olaf Otto Becker is well-known in the USA, his works are in reputable collections like that of the MoMA in New York. In 2011 his work will be shown at a retrospective exhbition at the Stadthaus Ulm (Germany).
