Ingar Krauss: The Cat's Eye
Marvelli Gallery, New York
February 13 - March 22, 2003
Marvelli Gallery presents The Cat's Eye, the first New York exhibition of German photographer Ingar Krauss. In this show, he presents a series of b&w photographs portraying peculiar girls and boys moving in the fragile space between reality and dream, childhood and adulthood, the inner and the outer world.
With sensitivity and intuition, Ingar Krauss creates portraits of children suspended between sadness and sensuality, vulnerability and mystery. The images of these uncanny children are charged with psychological intensity. Choosing children who grew up in marginal areas, far from homogenizing metropolitan contexts, Ingar Krauss focuses on their psychological features: absorbed in themselves, melancholically dreaming, tentatively sensual, naturally serious and sad. These children's psychological poignancy is almost a challenge to the viewer. The carefully chosen backgrounds enhance the complexity of these portraits: from floral wallpaper to dry institutional settings, from mysterious rooms to moody outdoor environments. In these formally striking pictures, Ingar Krauss carefully modulates light and composition in order to achieve a balance between subject and surroundings.
A self-taught photographer, Ingar Krauss has only recently started to exhibit his photographs, gaining immediate recognition. His work has been exhibited in Berlin, at the National Portrait Gallery in London and at Kunsthalles in Erfurt and Speyer, Germany.
MARVELLI GALLERY
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