Rainer Strzolka

Rethen Industrial Estate Rainer Strzolka

Rainer Strzolka (°1956, Berlin, Germany) makes photos, drawings, performances and media art. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, Strzolka makes work that generates diverse meanings. Associations and meanings collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image. His photos sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation. His works question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture in which images, representations and ideas normally function. By emphasising aesthetics, he seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life. His works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. Rainer Strzolka currently lives and works in Brela, Croatia. This volume was taken with Russian Rangefinder Zorki 4k in 2017 with Kodak Material, expired in 2003