![]() ![]() Nothing remains hidden: Every wrinkle, every birthmark is open to scrutiny and each individual trait is exeggerated to hyperreality. By exercising total control, the artist relieves his models of all attempts of self-staging and performing. Since the 1990s Martin Schoeller has staged the portraits of his models as spectacular close-ups in a recurring way: he defines the eye level and positions his camera at the same height instead of a flash he uses soft neon light, creating the effect of luminous eyes which is so characteristic for his work. In the internationally acclaimed series ✼lose Up«, the portraits of well-known personalities confront us eye-to-eye, intimate and unprotected, in the form of oversized blow-ups. ![]() ![]() OstLicht Gallery presents the work of Martin Schoeller for the first time in Austria, with a selection from his series ✼lose Up«, »Portraits«, »Identical«, »Transgender« and ✿emale Bodybuilder«. ![]()
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