Polaroid 50x60cm / 20x24"

the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera

Photography Paintings

Laurie, Jaqueline und Nora II1 / 40
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
Laurie - mit roter Seide II
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
Archiv
Kaminzimmer
Kruzifix
Lauries Geburt
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
Nora - Bett
Nora - Bett IV
Deutsche Maedels
Der Schrei I
Der Schrei II
Fuer Uwe
Ghost
Laurie + Jaqueline II
Psst
the series photography paintings by werner pawlok, photographed with the large polaroid camera
Nathalie
Jaqueline + Nora
Jaqueline + Nora II
Nora + Konstanze - Eintracht
Nora + Konstanze II
Petra mit roter Seide II
Petra und Yvonne
Portrait Gitta-Ilona

Photography Paintings
With his photography paintings Werner Pawlok decidedly emphasizes his intention to foil the old-fashioned way of thinking in categories, which separates photography from painting. The camera direction of the shots aims at a gestural and mimic vocabulary which are evocative of the classical portray painting of european art history, but without imitating or even quoting it. It is rather a sort of cultural background-noise which accompanies these works without a concrete reference being intended or comprehensible. For Pawlok, it is a question of the sublime heritage of this painting, which can be tracked until present times. He is familiar with these elements of bodily expression from the world of fashion, to say under the conditions of modern mass-communication. Here, he seeks to recover the intimacy of the origin which got lost on the way to pose. Rich light and colour shades that seem to arise from a baroque colour-palette, the almost tangible sensuality of skin, velvet sheets, fur and heavy drapery- all this can not hide the fact that the image searches for an intimate dialogue with the viewer. This might be the reason why the works seem to defy mere description. Being technically perfect, they signalise a certain vulnerability and fragility owing to the fugacity of the moment when meaningful sensitivity reveals it’s language to the viewer.

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