Form & Matter

John Pollak's new work deals with abstract forms and structure. He is interested in the interaction of the two dimensional abstraction of the photography and the meaning of the presented picture, which is not immediately revealed to the viewer. With the awareness of the sense a new way of perception opens up.

The Holocaust Memorial, conceived by Peter Eisenman and presented to the Berlin public in May 2005, is the subject of this new series of photography. Each picture detail, which partly just consists of geometrical fields of different gray scales, makes possible to feel something severe and monumental and to intuit silentness and finality. A hint to the subject helps the viewer to get a lot of different, further sensations.

Form & Matter Contact print I
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print II
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print III
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print IV
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print V
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print VI
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print VII
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print VIII
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm Form & Matter Contact print IX
original: gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 2009, uniqie copy, ca. 100 x 100 cm
Form & Matter Filmscan X
original: C-Print, 2009, 42 x 28 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XI
original: C-Print, 2009, 42 x 28 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XII
original: C-Print, 2009, 42 x 28 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XIII
original: C-Print, 2009, 42 x 28 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XIV
original: C-Print, 2009, 28 x 42 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XV
original: C-Print, 2009, 28 x 42 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XVI
original: C-Print, 2009, 28 x 42 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XVII
original: C-Print, 2009, 28 x 42 cm Form & Matter Filmscan XVIII
original: C-Print, 2009, 28 x 42 cm
Note

The nine black and white photographs are unique handcrafted silver gelatin prints on high quality paper and still available for purchase. The color prints are not limited and offered in different sizes. (The shown pictures at this web site are scans of the contact prints of the negatives and therefor have only a limited quality!)

For pricing please contact Galerie Förster.