NEW FREEDOM THINK
Astrid Krehan is a contemporary photo artist born in Nuremberg, Germany. On the occasion of the International Art Exhibition “NFT New Freedom Think” at M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, she presents three works, titled “TRANSITION”, belonging to a series of photos. Her works convert everyday objects into abstract images characterized by a high saturation and bright colorous.
Her photography is focused on capturing all the details of a surface and enhancing them showing texture, patterns or forms. All this is exalted thanks to the strong colours. The artist plays with the camera getting different combinations of light and colours with the result of creating abstract images. In fact, the visitor is in front of photos that look like a painting. The exaltation of the details leads to perceiving them as canvas and brushstrokes. Photography shows what the eye fails to take, sees more, but it also shows differently, it goes beyond what the human eyes can see. It breaks down objects or landscapes that do not exist in the external world but emerge from inner images.
The results are abstract images that tell a story, raise questions or invite you to think. Even before shooting, the photography image can see what the unconscious of the artist sees. This personal view of the world is the key to reinterpreting and transforming what she sees. The objects change under our eys, like suggested by the title of these three works. The movement of the camera allows to transform the object of the real world into a mental image, which arises from the artist's interior. What the artist show us is a “transition” understood as a transition of material, colours but also a transformation of life and country as it happened to Astrid in her life, changing continent and go to live in Shangai, an important time in her personal and artistic life
Title: TRANSITION II
Year: 2021
SIZE 70 x 105cm
Technique: Archival Pigment ink on Hahnemuhle FineArt Paper mounted under diasec
Editions:1-5 of 5
Title: TRANSITION VI
Year: 2021
SIZE 90 x 135cm
Technique: Archival Pigment ink on Hahnemuhle FineArt Paper mounted under diasec
Editions:1-5 of 5
Title: TRANSITION VIII
Year: 2021
SIZE 120 x 80cm
Technique: Archival Pigment ink on Hahnemuhle FineArt Paper mounted under diasec
Editions:1-5 of 5
“The camera is my magic tool to create my work, it enables me to reveal beauty that we otherwise would never see”
(Astrid Krehan)
Art Curator Federica Acciarino
Many thanks to M.A.D.S. Art Gallery and Art Curator Federica Acciarino