Menno Aden, Artist from Berlin structures, cartographic photography, topography

Tracks and Fields

In compositions of steep vertical formats, landscape emerges as a well-ordered aesthetic system. Paths, hedges, grass strips and walls become continuous bands of colour and structure. The extreme cropping of the photographs works against the usual vastness of landscape and expects the viewer to continue the initially limited picture on his own. As if arranged according to a flat plan, everything fits into a system of order and spatiality is smoothed out in two dimensions.

 

 




 

 

"Still Light", Galeria Deak, Budapest, 2012
 

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A series of four extremely high format cut-outs of front gardens with paths, lawns, hedges, house walls that lie on top of each other like horizontal layers. Eine Serie von vier extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte von Vorgärten mit Wegen, Rasen, Hecken, Hauswänden, die wie horizontale Schichten übereinander liegen.
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A series of four extremely high format cut-outs of front gardens with paths, lawns, hedges, house walls that lie on top of each other like horizontal layers. Eine Serie von vier extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte von Vorgärten mit Wegen, Rasen, Hecken, Hauswänden, die wie horizontale Schichten übereinander liegen.
Untitled XX 2009/10
A series of three extremely high format cut-outs of front gardens with paths, lawns, hedges, house walls that lie on top of each other like horizontal layers. Eine Serie von drei extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte von Vorgärten mit Wegen, Rasen, Hecken, Hauswänden, die wie horizontale Schichten übereinander liegen.
Untitled XV 2009/10
A series of three extremely high format cut-outs of front gardens with paths, lawns, hedges, house walls that lie on top of each other like horizontal layers. Eine Serie von drei extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte von Vorgärten mit Wegen, Rasen, Hecken, Hauswänden, die wie horizontale Schichten übereinander liegen.
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Three extremely portrait-format sections of an escalator from different perspectives. Drei extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte einer Rolltreppe aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.
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Three extremely portrait-format sections of an high building with many windows from different perspectives. Drei extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte eines Hochhauses aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.
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Three extremely portrait-format sections of an high building with many windows from different perspectives. Drei extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte eines Hochhauses aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.
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Extremely high format cut-outs of subway stations with tracks, platform, seats, subway tiles that lie on top of each other like horizontal layers. Extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte von U-Bahnhöfen mit Schienen, Bahnsteig, Sitzen, U-Bahn-Kacheln, die wie horizontale Schichten übereinander liegen.
Untitled (Tracks and Fields II), 2009
Extremely high format cut-outs of of a train station with tracks, platform, seats, subway tiles that lie on top of each other like horizontal layers. Extrem hochformatige Ausschnitte eines Bahnhofs mit Schienen, Bahnsteig, Sitzen, U-Bahn-Kacheln, die wie horizontale Schichten übereinander liegen.
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Devices

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Room Portraits

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Composition

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Assembly Lines

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Over Head

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Tracks and Fields

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Tubes

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Panel Flats

Menno Aden Studio

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