Dirceu Mau\u00e9s\u2019 oeuvre constitutes a far-reaching investigation into the photographic process and the techniques and equipment involved. The current omnipresence of digitally generated images is an occasion for Dirceu Mau\u00e9s to reflect on more original forms of photography and to construct his own cameras using the simplest of means. Over the course of time, in this way the so-called \u201cpinhole\u201d technique based on the principle of the ‘camera obscura’ has developed into his main means of aesthetic expression.<\/p>\n
A pinhole or hole camera does not use a lens, but is based on precisely this optical effect. The image is \u201cfixed\u201d by attaching film material or photo paper to the inner projection surface. Dirceu Mau\u00e9s uses his pinhole-cameras to recreate a hand-crafted means of image production dating from an era long before that of analogue photography, transferring this method to a present day which has long since arrived at the technical perfection of digital photography or artificial image generation, and in this way brings the intuitive, \u2018human\u2019 factor back to the fore.<\/p>\n
Mau\u00e9s developed the installation “Somewhere \u2013 Alexanderplatz” during his stay in Berlin; it consists of six projected video loops showing photos of the well-known Berlin square from different vantage points. In preparation for these shots, Mau\u00e9s used matchboxes to painstakingly construct 120 small pinhole cameras by hand, and then attached photo paper to the inside, subsequently recording photo sequences of the square from various vantage points as well as the dominant sounds in the area. Subsequently, he assembled the photographs into a film animation: the result was a 360\u00b0 panorama of the square, characterised by the marks of chance and his own work by hand with its minor errors and faults.<\/p>\n
Mau\u00e9s sees his overall artistic practice as a multilayered experiment operating in the border areas between photography, cinema and video and thus \u201ccomparing and contrasting the extended time of the pinhole camera with the absolute moment of film.\u201d (D. Mau\u00e9s)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-3853","kb_exhibition","type-kb_exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":4019,"article_image_bu_de":"","article_image_bu_en":"","datum_suche":"2013-07-09 13:49:35"},"yoast_head":"\n