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...nachdenklich,
doch nicht ohne Zauber, leise, doch nicht verschwiegen,
überraschend, doch ohne billige Effekte - Christian
Waeber sucht und beschreibt in seinen virtuosen Bildern mit einer
Intensität und Eindringlichkeit, die ihresgleichen sucht. Nacktheit ist
bei seinen Arbeiten nichts Obszönes. Fast keusch
entwirft er seine subtilen Arrangements, die, je länger
man sich
auf sie einlässt, immer tiefer, weiter und
raumgreifender zu werden scheinen, als
würden sie im Auge des Betrachters neu geboren und ein
eigenes, kunstbestimmtes Leben beginnen...
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Christian
Waeber, PhD
in der Schweiz geboren, Wissenschaftler und Künstler,
lebt in Boston.
"He
is also a photographer. Admittedly, he has a unique
perspective on the human body: he studies it both under
a microscope as well as through a medium format camera.
"As
humans, our whole esthetics is based on the human body,
we use it as a yardstick for our surrounding universe,
we use it to DEFINE what is beautiful. I am convinced
that if we looked like spiders or snails, we would be
attracted by spider- or snail-like shapes. What I am
trying to do is use parts of the human body, extract
them from their context (so that, for instance, it
becomes difficult to recognize a hip, a shoulder or a
leg) and transform them to create something new, that
doesn't "look" like a human body, an abstract
object that has conserved its beauty and erotic load. I
use several means to achieve this transformation:
alteration of texture (e.g. by covering the skin with
sand), of scale (by using wide angle lenses), or by
using several models, creating some kind of "impossible"
body. But movement (with long shutter speed) and water
(in particular underwater photography) are by far my
preferred ways of altering body shapes (see the examples
below)." |
www.cwaeber.com
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