Video: The aesthetics of the destroyed and abandoned. Atmospheric Decay series by Matthias Haker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and a real miracle is performed by the one who is able to demonstrate this beauty to another person, to give him the opportunity to look at the world with his own eyes, from his own corner. Such a wizard can be called a young German photographer Matthias Haker, who sees the beauty in the forgotten, destroyed and abandoned, and shares what he saw with other people, photographing what attracted his attention. The aesthetics of ruined and abandoned buildings are conveyed by his atmospheric series of photographs "Decay" … The photographs show something that in its natural form would never have attracted the attention of aesthetes, did not arouse admiration of the audience. Dilapidated houses with the same dilapidated furniture, sagging floors and crumbling steps, tattered chairs and chests of drawers in rooms with tattered wallpaper and a fallen fireplace, and even once chic, but today abandoned and destroyed architectural masterpieces like churches, philharmonic societies, museums - all this The hacker presents it under such a "sauce" that it seems as if nothing more beautiful could be. The talent of a young photographer lies not only in finding a suitable subject, subject and shooting point, but also in arranging the picture accordingly, following the chosen style.
Playing with light and shadow, colors and shades, experimenting with viewing angles and shooting points, Matthias Hacker turns dull interiors into stunning post-apocalyptic paintings that no longer look like photographs, but high-quality computer graphics. There is something fake, unnatural in them, but the style of this author is very peculiar, and this is his main charm, the very individuality that distinguishes these works from hundreds of others. Experts note that the strange photographs of Matthias fascinate with their content and visual brightness, attention to detail, as well as the ability to create a mood that resonates in the hearts of connoisseurs of non-standard contemporary art. It is not for nothing that atmospheric photographs of the Decay series are called the most popular art project of this author.
Matthias Hacker has recently taken a great interest in photography. And for five years now, he has given himself entirely to this passion, which has already gone beyond just a hobby, and has become the work of his whole life. Other works of the photographer can be found on his website.
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