Architecture nominee

The series includes pictures of cities worldwide; like Tokyo, Seoul or Berlin. The imagery is real, photographed as seen and the pictures are no collages.

In the project, the artist visually deconstructs existing architecture into artificially feeling tableaux.

Through stringent geometric framing and the negation of any depth of field, he flattens the three dimensional space into surreal, almost comic like portrays of urban architecture, making it hard to imagine and understand the complete architecture behind the motif.

Therefore the series visually explores the border between photography and computer made graphic and leaves the viewer behind with an uncertainty, if the picture is real or not.

This intended feeling relates to the common Zeitgeist, where the manipulation of pictures - especially in social media - increases permanently, so that we are more and more challenged to decide, if what we see is real or not.

After high school he learned photography in Stuttgart until 1999. During this time, he developed his versatile interested in abstract structures, geometric patterns and random arrangements of light and shadows.

During a phase of extensive traveling through several megacities in the early nougthies, he shifted his observation to the architectural substance of cities.

Through these experiences he eventually developed his passion and fascination of the artisitc exploration of urban architecture.

This accumulated eventually in his ongoing long term project "abstract cityscapes", in which he explores the spectrum of visual and emotional perspective of contemporary architecture and the borders between reality artificiality in photography.

Since 2005 Martin Leuze is based in Berlin-Neukölln. His works has shown in national and internationally in several solo and group exhibitions.