Der Wanderer – Hiroyuki Masuyama
In the organizer's words:
Light boxes after Caspar David Friedrich
The light boxes by artist Hiroyuki Masuyama exude a peculiar magic. Their motifs are familiar. "Oh, Caspar David Friedrich!" you want to exclaim when you see the pictures from a distance, only to be irritated as soon as you gradually approach them. For where Friedrich's famous paintings are painted in oil and hang magnificently framed on museum walls, Masuyama's light boxes radiate into the room, seemingly reproducing the landscapes of the Dresden Romantic as realistic photographs.
However, this is only an illusion, as Masuyama's works are not photographs, but collages assembled in small pieces on the computer. Detailed twins of Friedrich's works are created from countless digital fragments, but they are far more than just digital copies. Again and again, details creep into the pictures, wandering through time and appearing as modern foreign bodies in the landscapes. Sometimes a sports boat, sometimes a hiker in contemporary clothing, sometimes the artist himself looking into the distance with a photo bag under his arm.
If you get close to the light boxes and concentrate on individual image segments, the works also reveal their collage-like character and the quality of their craftsmanship. Details with blurring or trees that change their bark bear witness to the creation of the images from individual photo fragments and also express Masuyama's concern: appropriation aimed at self-awareness. In this sense, Masuyama's Light boxes after C. D. Friedrich invite us to discover ourselves through art. They address the relationship between the present and the past, question the relationship between art and reality, our view of the outside and the emotions within. They are statements and reflections, craftsmanship and inspiration, but above all beauty and pleasure.
The exhibition The Wanderer - Hiroyuki Masuyama at the Romantikerhaus Jena brings together 18 light boxes after Caspar David. These include not only The Monk by the Sea No. 2, The Stages of Life and The Great Enclosure, but also a Jena version of The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, for which Hiroyuki Masuyama climbed the Jenzig specially.
A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.
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