FRANK DARIUS
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
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PUBLICATIONS
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WORKS
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
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INTRODUCTION
For the most, part the photos are of wide landscapes looking out to the horizon, but Frank Darius’ (*1963) photographs look like flat mostly shadowless compositions, reduced to few calculated lines and surfaces.
The escape of almost white stems in a tree nursery is clearly moved out of the picture’s center to the left in order to make room on the right for staggered perpendiculars stacked one behind the other. Growing from a light coloured foundation, they lose themselves in the luscious green ceiling over the slanted supported structures of the distant landscape, a picture woven out of the elements. In the end, the intended picture, in fact the colors of the artwork, succeed at being both pale and exceptionally intense. Things disappear in real fog or in the seemingly just as real fading of the photograph, but mostly only in order to better compose more saturated accents with emphasis. Soon the only thing left of the two figures who vanish along the path of dunes between the outshoots of green will be the black and bright red dots of their running shorts.
A sharpened eye for such images is always to be had in Frank Darius’ photographs, whether he includes the gleaming blue sea, permits a glance at the encounter between sky and earth, relays the ideal seasonal colors by presenting the competition between forest and concrete buildings, or observes the floral charms of a translucent under garment.
In these compositions of elements that Darius notices , discovers, or one could almost say invents, there is a subtle poetic humor which reveals a sense for the discretely bizarre. But above all one person always says, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Dr. Boris von Brauchitsch
