[Frameworks] °**°Directors Lounge Screening - Karl F. Stewart - Thurs 27 March 2014°**°

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge Screening:

Karl F. Stewart
Impressions in Mind
Photographs and Video

Thursday, 27 March 2014
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Karl F. Stewart makes a mark in digital 
photography and video with his saturated colors 
and his rigorous compositions showing urban 
landscapes. He works with a photographic hybrid 
combination between still images and videos that 
do not hide their origin in their photographic 
concept. After being a documentary photographer 
in the 70's in Pittsburgh, his home town, he 
worked as an English lecturer in Italy for 24 
years, before he took up photography again only 5 
years ago, now going fully digital.

San Francisco, his next temporary residency after 
Italy, became his starting point for his relaunch 
in photography, where he mostly explored the 
downtown area. Not just the financial district of 
San Francisco, but a big part of the highly dense 
urban areas show an amazing economic growth with 
glossy surfaces and artificial contemporary green 
landscaping on one hand, and wide spread poverty 
of homeless people on the other. "The Unearthly 
Beauty of Simulated Nature in Contemporary 
Architecture" is Stewart's most pronounced piece 
from that period, presented as a video-photo 
essay. At the same time, the artist started 
exploring motion-blur and photoshop cut-outs. 
"Impressions of Movement" is a series of 
panoramic works that resulted and which he 
continued in different countries such as USA, 
Italy and France. The time-based presentation of 
digital pictures, that seems to be natural to the 
medium, led to digital video as his preferred 
medium at the moment. The artist recently moved 
to Düsseldorf, where he continues exploring 
landscapes and urban settings in often unearthly 
colors. Like with "K-20", showing a small 
fountain at the K 20 Museum in Düsseldorf, the 
examinations of urban-nature relations combined 
with sometimes witty surprising experiments, seem 
to propel his creative energy most successfully.

Artist Links:
http://kfstewart.com/
http://impressionsofmovement.com/

Links:
Directors Lounge
http://www.directorslounge.net
Full program details:
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/
Z-Bar
http://www.z-bar.de


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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany



email:			klaus at richfilm.de
and film production:		http://www.richfilm.de


phone:			int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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