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Del 8 de mayo al 20 de Junio

… In “Strange Paradise” Thomas Wrede once more proves his mastery of subtle, visual image-puzzles, piecing together reality and design. The wondrous, reflective arrangement of landscape fragments into more-than-real model sceneries contrasts with coastal landscapes that appear to be lost in reverie. Miniature, romantic worlds of images appear simultaneously foreign and familiar.

The lack of size references creates, without any digital manipulation, optical deceptions that leave one's perception swimming… rolling…wandering.

Like an impostor's fairy tale, the compositions portray scenes of vastness, tranquility, yearning, but also fear and the prospect of peril. Wrede reveals the artificial instant of photography as a consequence of the artificiality of its staging. In the tense field between the basic documentary function of the medium and its artistic fragility, Thomas Wrede succeeds in making convincing visual statements concerning questions of imagery and image. In the end, the image itself serves as aesthetically perfect evidence for its own conclusive reality… (preface by Rainer Danne, in: strange paradise)

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