MEMENTO FLORI IN SALZBURG

01/07/2017

Photographs of Dirk Bader and Andreas Zeischegg are shown under the Title „Memento Mori“ at Leica Gallery Salzburg: The fleetingness of all earthly things - the saying „Memento Mori“ (lat.: „Be aware of death“ - has appeared in the History of Art since the 8th century. The Motto refers to this basic thought without helping itself to the classical symbolism. The works focus on the metaphor of flowers and the „Blooming time of the Female“.
They are rich in visual opulence and coloring, whilst showing a mysterious morbidity. Everything seems to drown and merge into the depths. Some pictures play with the motives of commercial Beauty shots. The allude to Pop Art, the „pastos“ structure of classic oil paintings.
„The field of a dichotomy of characteristics of painting and photography and the search for a collaborative way of expression, under the „Leitmotif“ of the fleetingness of existence has propelled our oeuvre“, Bader says.
The photographs were taken on the high-resolution Leica S-System, a middle-format camera, without post-production, thus attaining an unusual new interpretation of „Memento Mori“ in a time of endless digital possibilities.
The series are limited and for sale.

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