"Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings" ~ “Images in Water” by Paul Rolans

Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings.

This exhibition is organized by Moderna Museert, Stockholm ,8 October 2011 –15 January 2012 ,in collaboration with Staatsgalerie Stuttgart ,11 February, 2012 – 28 May, 2012 and Tate Liverpool, 22 June - 28 October 2012.

“All three of these artists tested the boundaries of painting and radically challenged the traditional manner of artistic depiction. Well-considered juxtapositions will provide visitors with opportunities to contemplate each artist’s personal style as well as insights into the late phases of their careers. In his storm-blown seascapes, the English painter William Turner (1775–1851) developed an abstract pictorial language which was then taken up by the Impressionists. Claude Monet (1840–1926) realized the motifs in series of water lily paintings with differing light atmospheres. The works of Cy Twombly (1928–2011) offer a perspective on Turner and Monet from the vantage point of contemporary art. A prominent exponent of Abstract Expressionism, the American developed the poetic pictorial language further in his mythological compositions.

I admire the work of William Turner and Claude Monet a lot. It is an inspiration and at the same time a challenge to come up with something unique.. In my photo project "Images in Water", I show my view on this fascinating element. After many years of water-observation, I developed a special way of looking at it. I call it my imagenistic perspective. It. enables me to see Images in the water. Forms, figures and colours that are almost unbelievable.
The choice of works in the exhibition is very deliberate, it has seven themes. Beauty,Power and Space, Atmosphere and Fire and Water were the themes that I had in mind as I choose the pictures for this slide show.

I sell the photos in this video, but I also arrange exhibitions at congresses, conventions, meetings, celebrations,business- and other events,worldwide. On request, I create an unique photo-edition of "Images in Water" for you. Please contact me.

"The Gerhard Richter Window" in the Cologne Cathedral - an imagenistic interpretation by Paul Rolans

                                                                                                                                                                

The new stained glass window,in the Cologne Cathedral, designed by Gerhard Richter has been unveiled to the public on Aug. 25 - 2007. I went to look at it quite a lot since that day. The best time to do that is when the sun shines through it. Then some of the Cahedral´s walls look as if they are painted in light and fabulous colours. It inspired me so much, that I had to make this artistic comment,this imagenistic interpretation, in which I transform the stained glass window with its 11.500 coloured squares into images, that resemble the abstract paintings of Gerhard Richter

"Colour in the light"

"Richter’s work is indifferent to interpretations. It doesn’t operate with a higher meaning that can be read out of it, nor does it require this. It is what it is: colour and light. And it manages quite well with these fundamental elements. They suffice to produce a celebratory harmony. The coloured glass squares are only mediators between the sunlight of changing times of the day and the light yielded by the radiant power of the sun that passes through the coloured material. The sunlight manifests itself as coloured inside the church. And as the living natural light changes, so too does the colour tone of the affected light. Sometimes, on bright days, the yellow tones dominate; sometimes, on overcast days, the dark blue tones. The window lives from living light as the source of all life. ‘The light of the sun’, says the Dean of the Cathedral Dr. Feldhoff, ‘is refracted by the panes into the colours of the world’.... read the whole article

 

Gerhard Richter Panorama

"Gerhard Richter, beyond a doubt the most famous German artist of his generation, will be celebrating his eightieth birthday on 9 February 2012. To mark the occasion, the New National Gallery in Berlin is holding a sweeping retrospective of his work, in conjunction with Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris...." read more.

"Neptune in Water" as seen by Paul Rolans -The Imagenist

It was breathtaking as I saw Neptune, the mythological God of Water and the Sea in a litte river, that has its sources in the woods of Aachen. The name Aachen derives fron Ahha, which means "Water" in the Ancient Germanic language. Seeing Neptune in all his splendour, had a AHA! effect on me.
The first Image is one of the originals. As you´ll see it is just perfect.I didn´t need to change or edit a thing. I´ve made some variations of it in order to create this video.

"Under Trees. The Germans and the Forest" / "Images in Trees" by Paul Rolans

On the occasion of the exhibition "Under Trees.The Germans and the Forest", in the German Historical Museum in Berlin, I present this video with pictures of my photoproject "Images in Trees", which  I started in 1995.

In the year 1997 I exhibited my works at the Federal Ministry of Environment, Bonn. The exhibition with the title "Vielfalt - Bilder in Bäumen" was opened by Dr.Angela Merkel.

For more information please look here and here.

I sell photographs of my project in my webshop. If you appreciate my perception of trees or if you are looking for an exceptional present, I create an exclusive photo-edition for you of the Images in the Trees in your (palace)-garden, in your park or in your private-forest. Please contact me.

Andreas Gursky “Rhine II” and “Images in the Rhine” by Paul Rolans

BBC News Entertainment & Arts
11 November 2011

Andreas Gursky's Rhein II sets photo record

“An image of the Rhine by German artist Andreas Gursky has fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christie's New York, setting an auction record for a photograph.
Glass-mounted panoramic colour print Rhein II, created in 1999, is one of an edition of six works.
Others hang at New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Modern.

It beat the previous record of $3.9m (£2.5m) achieved by an untitled 1981 colour print by Cindy Sherman, who is the subject of all her own works.
Gursky's print had a pre-sale estimate of $2.5m-$3.5m (£1.6m-£2.2m).

Rhein II is the largest of the six photographs, which are produced in various sizes.

As well as in New York and London, other photographs in the edition are housed in Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne and Glenstone art museum in the US.
Gursky has spoken of "a particular place with a view over the Rhine which has somehow always fascinated me, but it didn't suffice for a picture as it basically constituted only part of a picture".
He said he "carried this idea for a picture around with me for a year-and-a-half".
"In the end I decided to digitalise the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me," he added.

Christie's said the viewer was "not invited to consider a specific place along the river, but rather an almost 'platonic' ideal of the body of water as it navigates the landscape".

Here you can see the picture and read the original article.

In my photo series “Images in the Rhine” I show pictures, which I did not edit as extensively as Andreas Gursky did with his photo. I have perceived and then photographed them out of a special perspective on the river Rhine in Cologne (2010). .

Info about the video:
This is a video of a slideshow on my PC. It shows some footage from my new photo series "Images in the Rhine." I´m specialized in water-photography and I work since 2003 continuously at my photo project "Images in Water. I would like to draw attention of the viewer at a new facet of this wonderful and fascinating element with its inexhaustible imagery. Due to my trained eye and a carefully selected perspective, I succeed in discovering unique pictures in the swirls, waves and refractions in the water which I capture with my camera. To make these - Images in the Rhine- was a real challenge. When I started, I first saw just a shapeless mass of water, nearly monochromatic. I had to “tame” the river with eye in order to make those Images out of the variety of underwater structures. I am very impressed by the paintings of William Turner and Claude Monet, who have decades long occupied themselves with the element water. William Turner made many trips along the Rhine and made many sketches of it, that served as an inspiration for his paintings. He has made some beautiful views of the Rhine that show Cologne.

On your request,I create an exclusive photo edition for you with „Images in Water“, from a river of your choice.

The 65th Annual Conference of the German Forest Society and "Images in Trees" by Paul Rolans

At the 65^th Annual Conference of the German Forest Society in Aachen held from 21^st to 25^th September 2011, Jan McAlpine Director of the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat within DESA, was awarded the Fernow Award by the German Forest Society at a commemorative event on September 23, at the historic town hall of Aachen. The Fernow Award recognizes individuals for outstanding achievements in international forestry.
Ms. McAlpine was recognised for her extensive achievements over the last three years on behalf of the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat, including, in particular, her accomplishments related to activities in celebration of the International Year of Forests, 2011. Read more .

I can identify with the slogan of this years` Conference :“Wir sind Wald” / “We are the Forest”. I´m working since 1995 at a photo-project, in which I show incredible images that I see in trees.In 1996 I´ve had an exhibition with it during the 57th Annual Conference of the German Forest Society at The Humboldt University in Berlin.I started with that project in Aachen and have extended it to the rest of Germany and some other European countries. I have named it “Images in Trees”. Here is a video that gives an impression of it.

On "Images in Trees" - Archive I have collected some Articles etc. Further information you´ll find on my homepage .

I sell photographs of my project in my webshop. If you appreciate my perception of trees or if you are looking for an exceptional present, I create an exclusive photo-edition for you of the Images in the Trees in your (palace)-garden, your park or your private-forest. Please contact me.

"Rembrandt in Water" as seen by Paul Rolans -The Imagenist

Here is a short video that I made at one of my exhibitions in 2008. It´s an exploration of a photo with the video-camera. The sunlight gives the Image a “golden” colour. Some visitors of the exhibition had associations with works from Rembrandt. It could be an abstract self-portrait. Rembrandt made a lot of them during his life. As I explored the Image with my camera, I discovered more little figures,which I will show in another video later on.