Light drawing Canary Islands sky. Schloer’s surreal walks on show at Zonca Zonca gallery in Milan.

Peter Schloer’s third exhibition at Zonca Zonca gallery in Milan was a great success. The German photographer decided to put on show a new black and white series of midsize photos.

The photo project is focused on the indissoluble relationship between man and nature, in both directions: high on the one hand and low on the other, searching for points of reference, which are unknown until someone experiences them.His great photos take the public on trip through aerial images, where the photographer, flying, tries to cross the human limits.

The flight is a metaphor for the interior elevation and the change of perspective.How does the sky appear through clouds? It’s like a rarefied landscape, without any limit that provokes feelings of suspension and loss to reach a wider point of view.

Wild Canary Islands are Schlooer’s favorite set, as in these places nature has always prevailed on man with several volcanic eruptions and the strong wind.

The sky is an image that doesn’t have a beginning nor an end, for this reason it creates a strong surreal atmosphere.This is not only landscape reportage, not only appearence. It’s an artistic work where ideas and dreams get lost in the fog.

From the title and the immediate character of the release you would tell that the artist has followed the Walkscapes photo style, a current which is bound to the Street photography, which is based on catching the unexpected detail during long walks.Serendipityallows to discover interesting transversal patches, makes of a culturally non-semantic element the main character of a scene, whose script is based on the casual context and on a particular framing.The same poetics is transferred to landscapes.

Thanks to black and white technique, photos become a studying of the shape, of its chromatic alphabet, where contrasts are the trait d’union between full and empty spaces.The semantic character is given by the public who is obliged to pass through the photographer’s work in progress mirroring in his photos.The meaning is purely subjective as the photo subject is totally indefinite, starting with the real colors which are very difficult to be reproduced.Walk on airjust catches an instant, a moment of nature.

Catching the landscapes it leads the human being to a profound introspective work that leads to the crossing of one’s fears and cultural masks, stability and points of reference.

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Pubblicato su Artitude.eu il 2011/04/10