Philipp Schaerer (Artist) 3/21

Work (From the series Bildbauten)




Bildbau No 1, 2007
50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm
Light Jet Print
Bildbau No 3, 2007
50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm
Light Jet Print
Bildbau No 5, 2007
50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm
Light Jet Print
Bildbau No 2, 2007
50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm
Light Jet Print
Bildbau No 6, 2007
50 x 70 / 6o x 85 cm
Light Jet Print
Compilation, 2007/08








Bio






Philipp Schaerer is a Swiss architect and image creator. He works with Computer Aided Design Software to create virtual renderings of buildings. He seeks to examine the nature of digital photography lending itself to the virtual rather than the real.



Quotations



"Frontal views of fictional architectures serve as an example. By means of their exaggerated and orchestrated way of representation, they model themselves on the object-like appearance and the formal language of contemporary architecture in a rather ironic way. All images try to reproduce a reality. They are not a photograph; instead, they were newly designed and constructed from scratch by means of image synthesis and digital image editing."

Philipp Schaerer

"Philipp Schaerer’s photography is a unique examination of how build for relates to its context. his bildbauten series looks at buildings as negative space and his meereshorst series investigates a variable relationship of building form to its surroundings. schaerer’s work is a collection of fascinating minimalist images that seem to build off of the work of andreas gursky and carlo van de roer, but manages to manipulate the relationship of subject and surroundings in a very potent way."

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Relates



Philipp Schaerer's work relates to mine because of a common questioning of the virtual. The digital medium that I work in has guided my conceptual framework as well as production. Schaerer's "images" are a reaction to the type of production he uses in his field and issues he has seen arise from such media. My work seeks to question permanence. Working in a digital production mode has led me to covet virtual image data, and protect this virtual data with multiple copies of the original. The question of virtual is then brought into the discussion of the "real world" in a tactile sense and comparisons are drawn between human organic permanence and the virtual permanence representing humanity. Schaerer explores the virtual in more of an additive way because he is literally bending "fictional" data which he has created.




Website

http://www.philippschaerer.ch/e/w-introduction-1.html