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© Elger Esser. VEGAP, Madrid 2024
La grande Be, Francia
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Elger Esser (Stuttgart, 1967)
Title: La grande Be, France
Year: 2005
Technique: C-Print diasec
Size: 184 x 241 cm
Edition: 7/7
Solitude and silence with an air of Neopictorialism flood this spectacular work by Elger Esser. It was acquired by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation during the 2014 International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid for its contemporary photography collection. These prints have been shown in recent years in several galleries and museums in Europe, Asia and North America.
Combining various photographic procedures, which champion technical quality, Esser succeeds in allowing his images to transcend the line between the past and the present, producing spaces and places with great timeless power. Considered the great romantic of the School of Dusseldorf, he maintains the grandeur of his photographs as the creator of these beautiful landscapes, which play with the lines of the horizon, pure and stark nature, as in this French Bay with vast, bare beaches. He is the worthy heir to the great artists who sought the sublime around the year 1900, Esser upholds the historical and artistic reminiscence of Italian landscapes, German painters and the French pioneers of landscape photography. Being keen on deltiology, he was often drew upon old postcards of France from the beginning of the 20th century as well as scenes inspired by the same Atlantic coast which attracted impressionists and post-impressionists, where he takes advantage of new digital technology to create visual compositions with remarkable strength of expression.