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29/9/2006

Lukas Maximilian Huller

Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin

Is It Still Possible To Sin Today?

Galerie Caprice Horn is presenting current works by the Austrian photographer Lukas Maximilian Huller / Solo Exhibition from September 30 to November 16, 2006

Pride, avarice, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth: What is the contemporary situation with regard to the seven deadly sins? In our present era, do they continue to be a matter of the essence of all evil, which threatens to lead human existence into ruin? Originally, to commit even one of these cardinal sins meant to lose divine grace. In the medieval conception, the conscious and deliberate commission of a deadly sin led to an irrevocable disruption of the individual's relationship to God. Secular society, on the other hand, in which God has become a private matter, seems to be engaged in an endless search for ethical standards. To define these values is the responsibility in equal measure of the individual and of social discourse. Are the seven deadly sins perhaps more relevant than ever, or are they only capable of being ironically broken on the level of parody?

The Austrian artist Lukas Maximilian Huller has taken up the theme of the seven deadly sins in order to present his interpretation of this age-old canon of sins in a contemporary context. He thereby makes reference to one of the most familiar art-historical representations of this theme, namely The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch. Whereas the individual scenes of Bosch's cycle of sins are arranged in a circle, Huller utilizes his special panoramic photography in order to unroll the theme in a linear manner - just as was customary in medieval series of pictures. Each deadly sin is portrayed in a provocative manner and with much careful attention to detail. The panorama technique of the artist allows the viewer's gaze to wander.

The approximately 400 degree-photographs have not been manipulated through image editing; each print comes from one single negative. Through the use of special cameras which to some extent he has built himself, Huller is able to bring various scenes into relation with each other and to capture them in one individual picture. Thus his photographs narrate stories which are offered to the onlooker in a comprehensive perspective. The viewer is positively drawn into the happenings and becomes fascinated by the wealth of details so rich in symbolism. Together with the scenarist Etienne Tombeux, Huller creates scenarios that almost possess the quality of film; he himself speaks of his art as a hybrid form of both photography and cinematography. Through the inclusion of well-known actors and portrayers of character roles such as Erwin Leder (Das Boot), Wilibald Mayerhofer (Volkstheater Wien), Paulus Manker (Burgtheater Wien), Jurgen Maurer (Burgtheater Wien), Martina Stilp (Schauspielhaus Graz) as well as THE TIGER LILIES (London), this impression is further enhanced.

Galerie Caprice Horn
Rykestr. 2 - Berlin
Opening hours: Tues-Fri 1-5 pm, Sat 11 am - 7 pm

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