Georg Kuettinger

~ Interferences

Light is a central phenomenon, one that Kuettinger has always evoked in his previous works. Shadow is another. For his new works, drawing from these phenomena, he employs different forms and depths of applied imprints. He sculpts the form and shape of transparency and, thus, the immediate access to the object (the photo) that only permits experiencing it by being enmeshed within the medium (the transparent imprint panels). The photograph that is situated at the root of these works is, under different circumstances, directly accessible to eyesight.

Interferences caused by the imprints and the shadows they cast add further dimensions of perception.  As a result, the human eye is challenged to permanently scan and question what it sees. The photograph suddenly evades its retrieval in the form of a static image. It can only be experienced when the human eye reassembles it, again and again. This constitutes a form of sight that denies fixation, a form of sight that corresponds to the perception of moving and dynamic phenomena.

Influenced by his architectural education Georg Kuettinger is reflecting the construction of space and its perception in his photoworks.

Similar to the art of creating music the term “landscapes:remixed” (2008-ongoing) describes the technique as well as the subject of his landscape series. Combining simultaneties and overlappings he is editing and compressing images as possibilities of landscapes.

For the past five years now he has been working on the series„Interferences“ in which he combines photographic constructions with a number of sculpted and transparent layers to create oscillating three dimensional photographic objects.