Beyond the Landscape Landschaft-Auflösung
Title
Beyond the Landscape, Landschaft-Auflösung
Fryderyk Heinzel
This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition Fryderyk Heinzel Beyond the Landscape Landschaft-Auflösung at ProjekTraum FN in 2018 in an edition of 50 copies.
Author
Heinzel, Fryderyk
Born in Opole, Poland, in 1967, Fryderyk Heinzel has lived in Überlingen since 2002. From 1989 to 1994, he studied art education at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, and from 1993 to 1998, he studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He works as a freelance artist and photographer on Lake Constance.
Heinzel's photographic works portray the landscape around Lake Constance and in the Upper Swabian hinterland. They reduce the landscape to its essentials. Inserted graphic elements, such as colored circles, lines, or areas, serve as orientation aids that seem to refer to the essence of the image. In this sense, they are a deliberately emphasized “punctum,” as Roland Barthes introduced into the contemplation of photography in his essay “The Bright Room.” Namely, that very point in an image that triggers a “shock,” followed by the realization “that's it!” In other words: the fascinating aspect of an image.
But with Fryderyk Heinzel, this may be deceptive. Because at the latest upon second glance, irritation may follow, the question of why these markings are placed as they are and whether there might not be other possibilities. This already draws the viewer into the artwork and its subject. The space for questions is open.
The main inspiration for Heinzel's oil paintings is Lake Constance. Here, too, the focus is on reducing the inner impression to its essentials. The combination of color and graphic order already points to the beyond of reality, i.e., to the constructed nature of the work. The viewer's irritation arises from the title of the works, “Beyond the landscape.”
Dr. Stefan Feucht
Head of the Lake Constance District Cultural Office
Introduction
Michael Stoll
ISBN-13
978-3-9823200-8-3
Publisher
ProjekTraum FN
Publication date
December 15, 2018
Availability status
Available
Product form
Softcover
Number of pages
104
