PETER BRAUNHOLZ
ARTIST & MUSICIAN

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ECKEN
(Corners)

Apart from merely recording objects and events, Peter Braunholz strives to discover surreal connections in real life. His main focus is on revealing layers of reality which are not perceptible to the naked eye. In his new series “Ecken” he reveals the hidden poetry of corners.

An unrealness lies in the strange beauty of these images, which also arouses a melancholic atmosphere. “Ecken” is strongly related to Arthur Danto’s idea of art as “The Transfiguration of the Commonplace” (Harvard University Press, 1981). Peter chose common corner spaces as the motifs for his work and strongly focuses not on their material, but on their immaterial quality. Therefore his work serves as an example for Danto´s ideas that art makes obvious things odd, art defamiliarizes and artworks have immaterial as well as material constituents.

Peter creates different, unique styles for his photographs, depending on the nature of objects and spaces, and he also chooses the formats for his images carefully. For the series “Ecken” he choosed the square as the only format for all images. The square format has a long tradition in art, and in photographic art as well. The analogue 6×6 format was used by many famous photographers: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Vivian Mayer – just to name a few. As we generally see the world in a landscape format, a square-crop supports a surreal visual language. Peter does not use the square to produce a centered composition, but to support the unreal atmosphere of the images. With the right-angled windows, corner-lines and additional geometric elements in his square images, Peter produced strong frame-in-frame compositions, which seem perfectly balanced. Another aspect of “Ecken” is the special color and light ambience: Peter took these photographs on cold winter mornings with overcast skies. The absence of shadows and the smooth colors add an element of quietness and sobriety.

1ST PRIZE
11TH GALA/POLLUX AWARDS, YORK (UK) 2018

ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
11TH POLLUX AWARDS, YORK (UK) 2018

FINALIST | NOMINEE
FELIX SCHOELLER AWARD, OSNABRÜCK (D) 2018

SHORTLIST
ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, London (GB) 2018

HONORABLE MENTION
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, LOS ANGELES (US) 2018

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40x40 cm | 16x16 inches
60x60 cm | 24x24 inches

Archival pigment prints on
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth

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Exhibited at

Taunus Foto Galerie Bad Homburg 2022
Kallmann-Museum Schloss Ismaning 2021
Burg Kronberg 2021
Kunstverein Germersheim 2018
Kunstverein Friedberg 2018
aff Galerie Berlin 2018
Mannheimer Kunstverein 2017

Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne
Galerie Julia Philippi, Heidelberg

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Featured in

LANDSCAPE STORIES
POSITIVE MAGAZINE

© Peter Braunholz 2017-18

 
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