Martin Denker Born 1976, Hamburg

"GaGaGarten", 2006

Photography, C-Print on diasec, Edition of 50

Numbered 3/50, dated and signed in pencil au verso.

Image 53,4 x 83,3 cm

Sheet 60,0 x 89,5 cm

Very good condition.

Martin Denker was educated at the Art Academy of Dusseldorf as a master student of Thomas Ruff. He assisted Andreas Gursky from 2002 to 2007. 

“I'm striving for what remains if I try to collage hundreds of visual glimpses out of my own digital photos, found visual materials which can be pictures, downloads, as well as objects I put on the scanner directly (from banana ice-cream to the plastic-wrapping of toast or platines from computer devices). I work in collages, but not physically. With digital programs I can use algorythms to shift the information of texture, color and form of digital files. What remains looks like an "image" between painting and photography.” 

—Martin Denker

The works of Martin Denker try to shed a positive light on the overwhelming information rollercoaster we all involuntarily take a ride on. As an artist he places himself in a world that moves so fast that images quickly lose meaning and only the most iconic remain in our memory. He challenges our perception by creating pictoral spaces constructed from a seemingly endless amount of layers. In these layers we feel the need for comprehension, we try to understand what the work is hesitantly communicating to us.

In a way this almost excruciating proces of looking for what is hidden in the picture is comparable to the way many of us try to understand and communicate with a fast paced and nearly abstract world. Still, Denkers' work does not show despair. Rather he views the so called age of communication as a intensely neurological experience. In his view the abstraction of images and their meaning will lead to a better understanding of our minds. This should lead to a second enlightenment and give us the new philosophies we are in dire need of today.