Winfried Bullinger Caves
In his "Caves" series Winfried Bullinger confronts the viewer with man's primordial relationship to the cave as source of protection and cultural space. His black-and-white photographs, taken in 2005-2008 in a variety of regions, bring together every conceivable symbolic connotation – from the mouth of hell to Hades itself, from a mother's lap to the seat of mystery. What unites them all is the same abstract image quality and message. The photographs move beyond the actual cave depicted to summon up a series of associations: the hole in a giant tree in the primeval forest, the panorama of a tropical rainforest, the cavity in a skull. But Bullinger also shows us the archaic-seeming "underworld" in which even people today still prefer the protection of the cave to a life in the light.
Hardcover
24 x 30 cm
96 pages
55 duotone illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-032-6
2008
Artists:
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In his "Caves" series Winfried Bullinger confronts the viewer with man's primordial relationship to the cave as source of protection and cultural space. His black-and-white photographs, taken in 2005-2008 in a variety of regions, bring together every conceivable symbolic connotation – from the mouth of hell to Hades itself, from a mother's lap to the seat of mystery. What unites them all is the same abstract image quality and message. The photographs move beyond the actual cave depicted to summon up a series of associations: the hole in a giant tree in the primeval forest, the panorama of a tropical rainforest, the cavity in a skull. But Bullinger also shows us the archaic-seeming "underworld" in which even people today still prefer the protection of the cave to a life in the light.
Hardcover
24 x 30 cm
96 pages
55 duotone illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-032-6
2008
Artists:
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