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Ulrich Hensel
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Ulrich Hensel - Photographic Simulations
For nearly two decades, Düsseldorf artist Ulrich Hensel (b. 1946) has been working almost obsessively on a series of photography projects whose focus, though inexhaustibly variable and complex, lies overwhelmingly on one single subject: construction sites. Hensel's approach could be described as conceptual; it is not objets trouvés, but places cherchées that capture his interest. His construction sites are places where economic, technical and not least cultural activities culminate, and which thus represent dense descriptions of the sociology of the world: reality and abstraction. It would be child's play for the artist to use digital tools to paste the desired elements into his images in a way that expresses his intentions, but to do so would be to contradict the idea of his project. For Hensel is concerned with auth...
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For nearly two decades, Düsseldorf artist Ulrich Hensel (b. 1946) has been working almost obsessively on a series of photography projects whose focus, though inexhaustibly variable and complex, lies overwhelmingly on one single subject: construction sites. Hensel's approach could be described as conceptual; it is not objets trouvés, but places cherchées that capture his interest. His construction sites are places where economic, technical and not least cultural activities culminate, and which thus represent dense descriptions of the sociology of the world: reality and abstraction. It would be child's play for the artist to use digital tools to paste the desired elements into his images in a way that expresses his intentions, but to do so would be to contradict the idea of his project. For Hensel is concerned with auth...