LUMAS VOICES:
FAVORITES OF A CURATOR
Buy art online, create your gallery at home: Whether painting, fine art photography or digital art, each work tells a unique story. This exclusive collection presents the favorites of LUMAS insiders and their meaning. Let their sense of aesthetics guide you through the art world and explore our experts’ essentials in this hand-picked selection.
Alongside the “outlook” in Sven Fennema's or Luc Dratwa's work, I am intrigued by Andreas Kock's play with “insight”. The viewer looks through the lens into a world that sparks curiosity. With well-tempered colors and balanced compositions, he creates narratives that are reminiscent of film classics by Alfred Hitchcock or Wes Anderson.
Marta Contreras Simó's work has shown me the extent to which 'promptography' is an art form in its own right: with its own challenges and incomparable potential. Although digital tools often replace sensuality with technical perfection, the artist succeeds in maintaining her delicate, sensitive approach that sets her photography apart.
Stefanie Schneider's works are both an ode to the joy of the analog world as well as an extensive, complex oeuvre of poetic Polaroid photographs. I am particularly impressed by their authenticity and fragility. By integrating chance as a stylistic element, they oscillate between reality and perception like frozen dream sequences.
In my eyes, Wolfgang Uhlig's photographs are unmatched in their space-filling presence with which they capture the expanse and grandeur of seascapes. With their diverse atmospheres, the clear symmetry and division of the image structure between sky and ocean, they overwhelm the viewer. To me, they seem like a secret homage to the Japanese master of photography, Hiroshi Sugimoto.