Michael Wesely: Stilleben

Franz-W. Kaiser

Michael Wesely: Stilleben
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
Country
Germany
Published
1 January 2007
Pages
80
ISBN
9783829603058

Michael Wesely: Stilleben

Franz-W. Kaiser

The transience of life has been a topic for centuries. Vanitas still lives, a specialty of the 17th century, speak a clear and often drastic language that includes skulls, dead animals, rotting fruit, and fading flowers. In his still lives of flowers created between 2001 and 2007 Michael Wesely, too, focuses on the idea of the memento mori. Using large-format cameras, which he built himself, he produces long-time exposures of several hours or days. In pictures that are as irritating as they are mesmerizing, he visualizes the withering flowers’ fragile, vibrant life of their own. This book, with an essay by Franz-W. Kaiser, is published to accompany an exhibition at The Hague’s Gemeentemuseum.

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