Overview participating exhibitions
Metropolis
2011
Metropolis
Andreas Gefeller
THE JAPAN SERIES (Japan, 2010)
Each year, as part of the European Eyes on Japan project, a number of European photographers are invited to record their impression of the Land of the Rising Sun. Andreas Gefeller turned his camera on utility, to which transformers and tangles of wires are attached. By photographing the poles twice from below, and then assembling an image in which the pole itself has disappeared, he creates an abstract image that permits us to see something old and familiar in a whole new way.
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THE JAPAN SERIES (Japan, 2010)
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THE JAPAN SERIES (Japan, 2010)
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THE JAPAN SERIES (Japan, 2010)
Global Detail
2003
Global Detail
Andreas Gefeller
SOMA
Skyscraper hotels with enormous parking fields, beaches of dredged-up sand, rows of beach chairs running for miles and dried out lawns surrounded by concrete. That is the standard landscape of vacation resorts like Gran Canaria. Gefeller (b. 1970) transformed this landscape into a cool, utopian stage set. His photographs are spatial and disorienting, as if they had been digitally manipulated. But they are real shots, albeit of unreal-looking tourist destinations. In his book Soma (2002) Gefeller combines the photographs with quotes from writers such as Aldous Huxley, Elias Canetti and Ray Bradbury.
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SOMA
Skyscraper hotels with enormous parking fields, beaches of dredged-up sand, rows of beach chairs running for miles and dried out lawns surrounded by concrete. That is the standard landscape of vacation resorts like Gran Canaria.
Gefeller (b. 1970) transformed this landscape into a cool, utopian stage set. His photographs are spatial and disorienting, as if they had been digitally manipulated. But they are real shots, albeit of unreal-looking tourist destinations. In his book Soma (2002) Gefeller combines the photographs with quotes from writers such as Aldous Huxley, Elias Canetti and Ray Bradbury.
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SOMA
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SOMA
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SOMA
Biography
In his work Andreas Gefeller (West Germany, 1970) tries to expand our perception of the familiar. He studied photography at the University of Essen, and since 2001 has been connected with the German Academy for Photography. Hatje Cantz published his monographs Soma (2003), Supervisions (2005), Photographs (2009) and The Japan Series (2011).
