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Post Arcadia 2

These pictures reflect an aspect of my long-term project on the subject of landscape. Landscape is in its origin a concept, which roots in the beginning of industrialization and renaissance painting. Seen as a concept, landscape therefore represents an image of an idea. We declare what an ideal landscape looks like and depict it e.g. in a photographic reproduction. In everyday life simulations of landscape and nature in relation of educative, scientific, recreational-oriented or economical contexts are ubiquitous. They not only influence our notion of nature in its derivation but also enhance implicitness of a designed environment. The differentiation between image, copy, representation, simulation and finally simulacrum is increasingly more difficult. The pictures of the series Post Arcadia indicate in content and form a room representing the above mentioned phenomena. These are both implicit in the term of landscape and photography.

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