« « In these raw virgin landscapes I found tranquility, not only at night, but also during the day. This allowed me to work all day. These locations have a clarity and depth that one can feel.
This body of work is a subjective image of these awe inspiring natural spaces where I am -once again- experimenting with the boundaries of photography . The work has two parts. The very abstract and subtle images, which are hard to decode and the more concrete images where one actually recognizes the landscape immediately. ». »
Michael Schnabel
A few weeks ago the Brita GmbH awarded this year´s BRITA Art prize 2012 at Kunsthaus Wiesbaden/Germany. Nationwide almost 300 applicants submitted their work with the topic “Water-Lines-Perspectives“. The BRITA GmbH has dedicated itself to art since 1991. Since then numerous exhibitions have been held under the title “Art at BRITA“ at their branch office in Taunnusstein /Germany. And their own art collection enriches the BRITA-collegues working surroundings. The prestigious art prize is allocated since 1993 and this year was organized in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden for the first time.
Michael Schnabel’s series “White Land” has convinced the jury consisting of renowned experts from the fields of art and photography, and was able to emerge as the winner of the first prize.
« Michael Schnabel’s series, ‘Silent Mountains,’ has caused a considerable stir and has won several prizes. Mountains are, in the fullest sense of the words, lofty and sublime objects. The photographer from Stuttgart, Michael Schnabel, who was born in 1966, does complete justice to this fact and has come up with a new way of looking at these massive geographical agglomerations: he has photographed them at night, whenever possible under a moonless sky with a thin covering of cloud, in order to capture the mountains’ structure that one could only describe as delicate. The resulting images radiate an unreal tranquility that seems to be physically tangible, they provide us with an unexpected view of these gigantic forms, which present themselves in colors different from what one might expect, revealing structures and details with unprecedented beauty while nonetheless retaining an inherent aura of the unapproachable».
Michael Schnabel was born in 1966 in Neunkirchen, Germany, he lives in Stuttgart.
REPRESENTATION
GALLERIES : Esther Woerdehoff, Paris : http://www.ewgalerie.com
Photonet, Wiesbaden : http://www.photonet-online.de
AGENTS : Léon l’agent, Paris : http://www.leonparis.com
Marion Ernste-Jaspers, Hamburg : http://www.ernste-jaspers.de
Bernstein & Andriulli, New York : http://www.ba-reps.com
Bernstein & Andriulli, Shanghai : http://www.ba-repsasia.com
EXHIBITION
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