windows to art / fenster zur kunst

Windows of museums, windows of exhibition rooms: Sunlight enters through them, mixes with the artificial lighting of the gallery spotlights and hits paintings or delicate prints. These are no ideal conditions to present art in an undisturbed environment. The artificial lighting can be customized. But you cannot customize the rays of the sun – so the windows are darkened. With blinds made from gauze, with curtains, with shutters – or they are insulated with frosted glass. It’s a lovely sunny day! The huge windows of K21 in Düsseldorf have been covered with bright shades. Wonderful! It is extremely difficult for me to concentrate on the exhibits: The diffuse lighting, painting silk transitions at the edges; the sharp-edged light gaps, dividing the space of the windows and separating the outside into a light grey shadow play. From that moment on I am only taking pictures of those windows. The artwork behind me becomes a secondary matter. And once focused on theses plays of light my ›third eye‹ walks with me through galleries, I start to collect pictures of windows, wherever the museums let me – or even if they don’t – and where the camera sensor is able to capture the mysterious beauty of the dimmed light. Without a tripod. This book gathers a selection of these pictures. self-published 2022 190 x 320 mm 88 pages, 45 images softcover, swiss brochur edition of 100 copies