Photomanipulation 2nd place winner

Not being a painting but still looking picturesque. Appearing to be photographed but not being a photograph either. Realistic – yet every image is an illusion.

A generation’s sentiment of nature is portrayed in the imagery of Mette Hansen and Manfred Daams. It reflects a longing for freedom, deceleration and devotion. This Generation longs to perceive “true” nature and cares to harness it in a “native” way. People envision nature as a place remote from industrialization, even though it is very much affected by it. On the one hand nature is emotionalized through one´s past. Otherwise - swayed by a sustainable and future oriented zeitgeist - Marketing and Design influences our idea of nature and vice versa. Thus, the composition of the images and their appealing romanticized aesthetics, produces a pretended feeling of depth and well-being. In opposition stands the shift of focus and perspective as well as a planar figurative language and impeccable, reiterating and reduced interior. This illuminates the fact of an industrial affected conception of nature.

The result is a complex and self-contradictory image.

CURRICULUM VITAE


NAME Mette Hansen
ADDRESS Weidengasse 23, 50668 Köln, Germany
DATE OF BIRTH 13/03/1971
NATIONALITY Danish
TELEPHONE 0049 221 130 81 95
E-MAIL info@mbh-rendering.com


EDUCATION


2003 – 2016 Artist, Freelance creative director and 3D Artist


1998 – 2002 University of Cologne
Bachelor in Egyptology

1993 – 1994 School of arts, Thorstedlund


1989 – 1992 Frederiksberg Studenterkursus, Kopenhagen
(grammer school)

1987 – 1988 High School in California, USA




NAME Adams van Aken
ADDRESS Berliner Straße 60, 51063 Köln, Germany
DATE OF BIRTH 27/07/1972
NATIONALITY German
TELEPHONE 0049 176 700 460 55
E-MAIL mail@daams-fotografie.de







EDUCATION


2003 – 2016 Freelance photographer and Artist

1996 – 2002 University of Cologne
Staatsexamen in biology and chemistry

1993 – 1996 Euregio School, Würselen (grammar school)






EXHIBITIONS

2015 Exhibition at White Wall Galleries; Berlin, München,
Düsseldorf; Germany

2010 Artistic Director at Mülheimer Theaternacht;
Cologne; Germany

2009 Exhibition at Kulturforum; Cologne; Germany


2008 Exhibition at PCO; Frankfurt am Main; Germany


2007 Exhibition at Lampmann Haberkam Rosenbaum;
Cologne; Germany

2005 – 2006 Postcard project „the Village“; Germany


2004 Exhibition at Stadtgarten; Cologne; Germany