Ansichten Views Vues - Elger Esser Leinen

Waves wells and watersides????????????from his very beginnings water has been a continuous subject of Elger Esser's photographic landscapes and vedutas. In his most recent series the D????????sseldorf photographer presents digitally processed colored seaside postcards from the 1900s showing bathers and boats rocks and froth. Selected from the artist's enormous postcard collection these highly enlarged grainy seascapes exude an intriguing old-masterly quality that brings to mind past times and the memories inscribed. Fusing antique aesthetics and digital technology Esser proves to be a n avant-garde romantic of our times a quiet apocalyptic praising life against the disappearance of the world. Alexander P????????hringer's essay relates Esser's tableaus to the classic age of discovery and the grand-tour quest for far-away places.