honorable mention
Youssef Riegel germany
title
Hidden_Faces
The examination also attributed to me a special relationship between areas, surfaces and colours.
This relationship of surface division and colour reference has preoccupied me for decades.
My works are neither digitally processed nor alienated by me. I photograph them from my laptop screen at various angles and filters. In my submitted portrait photographs, balanced distance and aloofness, secrets and emotional reticence, abstract vision and the sparing use of color and color scheme are very important to me.
This is how I see the transformation from the real representation of a portrait to the simple and economical, restrained colour surface, where you have to look twice to discover a face/portrait.
Through the FineArt print, a pigment photo print on 315g Baryta cotton paper from Hahnemühle, with a lamination on 3 mm Alu-Dibond and a width of 128 cm and a height of 168 cm, the pixels are hazily unclear spotted and appear as if applied with a brush.
A fascinating symbiosis of painting and photography. I hope you enjoy it.
1974 left school after 13 years, pupils of Gerhard Richter (1969/1970) and Gerolf Schuelke (1971-1973)
1980 - Photo Assistant in Rolf Ploeger's studio in Düsseldorf, mainly Still Life, Pack-Shots + free works
1980 - Study trip to the West Coast of the United States from America and Canada
1981 - Studies at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf with Tony Cragg
1981 - I produced for Jörg Immendorff in Düsseldorf in the darkroom especially for his archive b/w prints
1982 - Assistant Manager in the Gallery "Die Schablone" in Düsseldorf for several years
1993 - 2001 Traveling, studying and working in France, Morocco, Tunisia and the
People's Republic of China, visiting the metropolises of Europe
2007 independent artist until today
2013 - 2015 Opening of my own gallery "dasbuntehaus" in Moenchengladbach, Germany
2019 Study trips to the Baltic Sea and Cairo, Egypt
back to gallery
entry description
When, in my teenage years, I was examined by a psychologist about my professional abilities, he found that instead of seeing concave, I saw convex and vice versa.The examination also attributed to me a special relationship between areas, surfaces and colours.
This relationship of surface division and colour reference has preoccupied me for decades.
My works are neither digitally processed nor alienated by me. I photograph them from my laptop screen at various angles and filters. In my submitted portrait photographs, balanced distance and aloofness, secrets and emotional reticence, abstract vision and the sparing use of color and color scheme are very important to me.
This is how I see the transformation from the real representation of a portrait to the simple and economical, restrained colour surface, where you have to look twice to discover a face/portrait.
Through the FineArt print, a pigment photo print on 315g Baryta cotton paper from Hahnemühle, with a lamination on 3 mm Alu-Dibond and a width of 128 cm and a height of 168 cm, the pixels are hazily unclear spotted and appear as if applied with a brush.
A fascinating symbiosis of painting and photography. I hope you enjoy it.
about the photographer
1956 born in Duesseldorf, Germany in autumn1974 left school after 13 years, pupils of Gerhard Richter (1969/1970) and Gerolf Schuelke (1971-1973)
1980 - Photo Assistant in Rolf Ploeger's studio in Düsseldorf, mainly Still Life, Pack-Shots + free works
1980 - Study trip to the West Coast of the United States from America and Canada
1981 - Studies at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf with Tony Cragg
1981 - I produced for Jörg Immendorff in Düsseldorf in the darkroom especially for his archive b/w prints
1982 - Assistant Manager in the Gallery "Die Schablone" in Düsseldorf for several years
1993 - 2001 Traveling, studying and working in France, Morocco, Tunisia and the
People's Republic of China, visiting the metropolises of Europe
2007 independent artist until today
2013 - 2015 Opening of my own gallery "dasbuntehaus" in Moenchengladbach, Germany
2019 Study trips to the Baltic Sea and Cairo, Egypt
back to gallery