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Dog World #5/8

Collection

Heartbreak

Description

When one speaks of photography that transgresses the boundaries to painting and the painterly, one tends to mean works in which the structuring effect of colour has priority. In the works of Peter Franck's shown here, the crossing of the boundary between the two is also apparent – although it defies description in conventional terms. This and their narrative character are what determine the quality of these works. Elements from comic strips, the history of film and art as well as everyday situations collide. Where a real man seemed to be sitting, a wall becomes purely a colour surface, a bag becomes a decorative pattern, a screen turns into a comics element, a table into a geome-trically concrete visual form – a room is, therefore, nothing other than an abstract construct; the body within it is what turns it into space. People are usually merely suggested in Peter Franck's pictures. Their bodies leave imprints on chairs (who wouldn't be reminded of Hitchcock's 'Psycho'?), clothing in a wardrobe or papers on a table. Magritte may have engendered the view from a window although to speak of Surrealism would be to go too far. Peter Franck's photographs are richly allusive collages that challenge our visual memory and seduce it. Everything is composition and photography is only one of many means for sparking off associations in the viewer's mind and set stories in motion. And in this subtle media setting the images blur the boundary between photography and painting. Petra von Olschowski

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