Mat Hennek: Sounds of Spheres
Author(s): Hélène Grimaud (Text by); Mat Hennek (Designed by); Matthias Langner (Designed by)
In the atmospheric photographs of Sounds of Spheres, Mat Hennek creates striking impressions of how we imaginatively engage with nature. Whether depicting the world from a traditional receding perspective-a misty landscape at sunrise, snow-laden branches, palm trees bending in the wind-or from above-the serpentine curves of a river, fossil-like patterns in sand, the churning surface of the ocean-Hennek does not record nature but captures the apparitions it evokes. Through the soft blurring of edges, lyrical color and a focus on pattern, his images move between representation and abstraction, simultaneously capturing and veiling form. The idea of the sphere links subjects that may at first seem unrelated: a rock posed like a face at the top of a mountain, the glowing ball of the setting sun, the round shapes of ice crystals in a miniature frozen universe, and the great globe of the Earth upon which all this unfolds. And yet Hennek's fascination with spheres is never merely formal: through the "sounds of spheres" he taps into the harmonizing musical resonances of all living things-secret but accessible, if we only listen closely enough.
All living beings produce sounds, just like the planets in the universe: a symphony that we hear only if we become attentive. - Mat Hennek
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Gerhard Steidl Druckerei und Verlag
- : Steidl
- : 1.20202
- : 27 June 2023
- : {"length"=>["32"], "width"=>["31.2"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hélène Grimaud (Text by); Mat Hennek (Designed by); Matthias Langner (Designed by)
- : Hélène Grimaud (Text by); Mat Hennek (Designed by); Matthias Langner (Designed by)
- : 80
- : 80
- : 779.092
- : 779.092
- : English
- : English
- : Hardback
- : Hardback