Wim
Bosch
Wim Bosch composes his pictures digitally from various photographs of
his own and other illustrations, for example from home decorating
magazines or from the Internet.
As in painting, the empty, white
surface forms the point of departure for the illusion of a reality
reproduced in photography consisting primarily of independent pictorial
elements.
Though the individual components come together in a coherent
order,
the various perspectives, effects of light and shadow and the
colour accentuations create an atmosphere of unreality and
artificiality closely approaching photorealistic effects. A few details
– a missing shadow, breaks in perspective or spatial relations that are
not completely logical – reveal the constructed nature of the pictorial
context which is nonetheless sealed off and held together by a
homogeneous surface as an “outer skin”.
Wim Bosch constructs
interiors that with their furnishings and accessories look rather
ordinary and everyday. But the items distributed in the room, a figure
beyond the boundaries of the picture or abruptly cut off by them make
the impression that an extraordinary event has just taken place here.
As at the scene of a crime,
something that has happened seems to be
concentrated here, and the viewer attempts to investigate, but without
being able to find enough clues about it. However, a context of action
can hardly be put together. What becomes visible is rather a structural
order in the interplay of various ornamental structures, perspectival
situations and pictorial analogies. The point is therefore not so much
to link the pictorial worlds to an external reality as to discover
relationships and contradictions within the picture.
Dr.Christoph Kivelitz - October 2005
Dr.Christoph Kivelitz - October 2005
