Press Comments (selection)“Ernst Hartig’s exhibition “And the female lures eternally” provokes with large-screen digitally processed nude photographs. Viewers react emotionally in conversations about the works – which are processed in several layers with refined computer technology, and give the impression of having been painted in oils.”
Frankfurter Rundschau (11.10.2005) “It is primarily the aesthetics and grace of the human body in its fullness of its force of expression that enthuse Hartig, and which he would like to convey a better understanding to viewers artistically and in his way. (...) So studies of the female body come into being whose natural appearance allow the sensory charisma to be foreseen.”
Computer Art Faszination (07/2002) “His splendidly colourful, digitally processed works conceal the transitoriness within the creature of vitality.”
Asahi Shimbun/Tokyo (7.4.2005) "The gerbera with its vigorous red tones appears to be an oil painting; the plant and its blurred details dominating the picture seems close to touch, and is yet simultaneously both secretive and elusive. The floral images that lend the illustrated book a special attraction are strangely real, and mysterious in a fascinating way.”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (22.3.2001) “Splendidly colourful pictures of people or of flowers frozen in clear ice look as if they have been painted, but have actually been photographed.”
Offenbach Post (17.5.2005) |
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“The breathtaking interplay of the traditional elements of photography and modern digital technology makes them fascinating. Whilst Hartig records the human being with its erotic, its development and passing with his flowers in ice oriented on Georgia O’Keeffe, the nude portraits surprise with their natural appearance of the feminine body.”
Kunst Aktuell (issue 10/2005) “Frozen Beauty by Ernst Hartig...The impressive ice flowers series of the photographer and computer artist is shown.”
VISUELL (issue 5/2004)“ Bizarre, cool, seductive. Reminiscent of fresh summer drinks, fuzzy behind glass. Melting scoops of fruit ice cream. Tempting refreshments, when summer comes. Colourful photographs. Like oil paintings. Strange effects. Intoxication of colours. Morbid beauty behind a veil of ice. Magnificent.”
BILD FRANKFURT (8.7.2004) “The picturesque, enchanting works are an invitation into a world of fantasy!”
Mainichi Shimbun/Tokyo (6.4.2005) |
