Dittrich & Schlechtriem ( Berlin )

I have decided to create a made up exhibition which will look into graffiti as a form of art rather than looking at it like it is a crime, I have chosen to base the exhibition inBerlin in Germany, As i want the exhibition to be based on looking at the connection between graffiti and subcultures as well as how it links to crime.

Dittrich & Schlechtriem pleased with HESTER in Germany to present the first solo exhibition by New York-based artist Asger Carlsen (opening on Thursday, 31 January, 18-20 Clock). Carlsen will show a selection of black-and-white photographs from the 23-part series HESTER who, in their art, however, is traditionally clearly eerily contemporary. The exhibition will feature eleven prints in an intimate format of 70 x 48 cm, as well as four works in a new, life-sized format.

HESTER documented in figural body disfigured by digital distortion. "They are anonymous beings. Deprived of their identity, they differ only by their black or white skin color, their muscular or obese physique or through small details like birthmarks on the skin or painted toenails. "

"In a first step, photo models and additional molded body modeling imitations are scanned. In the subsequent complex digital processing of the photographs [...] the photographed items are joined together so that the interfaces are defaced. The business of photography is in relation to the creation of the computer so a brief moment. "

"In fact, the viewer does not know what he sees in HESTER: Photography? Sculpture? Photographed Sculpture? [...] For the purposes of abstract art, in particular the synthetic cubism in the early 20th Century, Carlsen processed on a computer multiple views simultaneously by deconstructing their shapes and reassembles it with the aim of human body does not only reflect, but also to make literally tangible. Yet another photograph of the punch as opposed to painting, sculpture or drawing is own. The simple idea about enough Carlsen's works were not photographs of objects, but three-dimensional sculptures made of classic materials such as marble, bronze or copper. Then they would probably comparable with the sculptures of Henry Moore, which are considered pure, hyper-aesthetic forms. "