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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: Steve Braun
Archetype
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In his photographic works, Steve Braun uses a pictorial symbolic language borrowed from ethnographic, ideological or religious contexts. Historically charged set pieces from cultural history become props for his dramatically staged still lifes. Detached from their usual sphere of activity, the entanglement of meaning and form manifested in the symbol shifts, creating a new attribution in the recurring pictorial element.
Steve Braun composes picture legends that go beyond the two-dimensional depiction to the objectivity of his motifs. He drapes, arranges, constructs and processes the objects, emphasizes their materiality and shows them as installations that take up the whole room. The distinction between sculptural examination and photographic strategy becomes blurred.
About author:
Steve Braun, born in 1989 in Demmin, studied fine arts in the sculpture class of Ottmar Hörl from 2013 to 2017 and in the photography class of Jürgen Teller at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg from 2017 to 2019. In 2019 his professor Jürgen Teller awarded him the title of a master student. During his studies from 2017 - 2019 he participated in a long-term workshop of Frederik Bush.
Steve Braun composes picture legends that go beyond the two-dimensional depiction to the objectivity of his motifs. He drapes, arranges, constructs and processes the objects, emphasizes their materiality and shows them as installations that take up the whole room. The distinction between sculptural examination and photographic strategy becomes blurred.
About author:
Steve Braun, born in 1989 in Demmin, studied fine arts in the sculpture class of Ottmar Hörl from 2013 to 2017 and in the photography class of Jürgen Teller at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg from 2017 to 2019. In 2019 his professor Jürgen Teller awarded him the title of a master student. During his studies from 2017 - 2019 he participated in a long-term workshop of Frederik Bush.