Lars van den Brink

Oeschinensee - Swiss Alpes (Berner Alpen)

2020

Since the last two years at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (1996 – 2001) Lars has been fascinated in the different ways photography gives him the opportunity to take reality into his own hands and give it a little spin so he can create and realize the story I want the viewer to see. Within his photography Lars examines different techniques that enable him to portrait his fascination for a person, a location, a scene or topic. In his latest work Lars use the possibilities contemporary technology offers to lift the unity of time. And thus he plays with one of the classic characteristic of photography. Day and night, hours and minutes, they all become fluid within his work. In Lars method of work he doesn’t interfere with what is happening in front of his lens. He builds his story just out of scenes and people that happened to pass by. By doing so he creates a somewhat surrealistic tableau vivant with a strong documentary character. Lars’ photo’s are often overly crowded landscapes which, like Museum de Fundatie wrote, reminds the viewer off late medieval masters like Pieter Breugel or Jeroen Bosch. Filling his compositions with little human stories, which reflect his fascination for us, the human race. The images intend to shape the emotion about the ongoing quest in life. It is the solitary element in us that stirs and inspires me to make my personal series.