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20/3/2012

Ursula Kraft & Michael Schnabel

Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

In the series "Still Berge", Michael Schnabel photographs the Alps like gigantic, eternal monuments, lost in a quiet night. The night made it possible to see the other side, the mountain emptied of its tourist activity, phenomenon so insignificant on the geological scale but still dangerous for a fragile balance.
The wild and untouched nature no longer exists, but one is just starting to discern a part of it…

"Stille Berge: Photographing the Alps in my own vision was a creative process that developed over years. One day - or night rather - it clicked. Under the dark skies I found the tranquility that the Alps of today lack during the day. The night and its silence gives the mountains a sublimity, feeling of raw creation and aloofness that I strived to capture in my work.
Exposure times were about an hour; a sharp contrast to the city images which required only a few minutes.
Focusing and even framing the image through the ground glass was another issue, as there was precious little to see under the low light conditions. The contributed to the fact that many of the exposures didn't make the final selection." Michael Schnabel

"White Land: In these still native landscapes I found tranquility, not only at night, but also during the day, which enable me to work during the day. The vastness and pureness can be felt. A personal image of these impressive natural spaces. Again, I am trying to fathom the border between photography and painting or other works on paper, which is if at all only noticeable in the original." Michael Schnabel

The German photographer will be presenting new works which continue et complete her Emerentia series and also pursue the questioning of dreams, metamorphosis, myth and the transition from childhood to adulthood. The artist uses landscapes along with the symbolism of fairy tales to depict an internal landscape. Following the interpretation of C.G. Jung who found in the fairy tales the expression of the psychological process in a collective unconscious, Ursula Kraft looks for ways to represent through images an introspective dimension, a glint of the soul.

"Emerentia gives images to our introspective worlds while being an intuitive reflection of our soul. According to C.G. Jung, the fairy tale expresses the psychological process of the collective unconscious. Mythological characters such as the 'trickster" which belongs to many different cultures, represent the dark side of the "child within", his ambivalent twin.

The archetype of the wandering child, of the lost child, evokes the irresistible urge to define and name this figure. The red cape becomes the surface where our memories, fears and desires will be projected.
Emerentia relates through these internal landscapes an initiatory path and brings to life certain scenes of those fairy tales. Nature can be peaceful and nourishing like in "Snow-White and Rose-Red" or can be a nightmarish and dangerous place like in the "Little Red Riding Hood". The dark Forest symbolizes the chaos and our unconscious fears. The images, like the tales, have become through their symbolism the threshold between childhood and adulthood, the passage into womanhood.

Emerentia evolves through different characters who are already present in the creative process. Those different directions remain connected by a theme and the tales are woven like a spider web.
(…)" Ursula Kraft

Image: Michael Schnabel, Weisses Land Skizze #11 © Michael Schnabel

Press contact
Sabine Guédamour Tel: +339 51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com

Opening Reception: Wednesday 21 March from 6pm-9pm - The artists will be present.

Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
36, rue Falguière 75015 Paris – France
tue. – sat. 14h – 18h

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