AKTRÄUME

For some works, he provides interiors and landscapes as a stage to his models, which they may play on at their discretion. Markus Reck himself remains in the background and documents - without, thereby directing - the process of free self-presentation in frames, which he then combines at the computer into one simultaneous picture. The finished works shows at a glance, the confrontation of the model with her own body in an area defined by the artist over a long period of time. In another series he opens a different approach to the body, also on the computer; he adds excerpts from nude photographs together into ornaments by which he discusses the importance of physical beauty in a most original way. However, he goes one step further, in which he abstracts the body ornaments into wallpaper patterns, or furniture coverings. Through this alienation the former unique body suddenly becomes a mass product, to a seemingly industrially usable product. Behind it there is the experience, that when man is discovering the beauty of the individual and the nature, it gets recycled and commercialized - and thus ultimately again devalued.