Gallery Barton presents "Supervisions & Beyond," the first solo exhibition in Asia of German photographer Andreas Gefeller (b.1970). 

This exhibition presents leading works from the artist's major series, 'Supervisions' and 'The Japan Series.' Both these series release in a visually interesting way how the structures that are familiar to us like parks, buildings and man-made urban spaces transform when the artist's own interpretation and creative approach are intervened; therefore, it will provide an opportunity for the local art lovers to experience a new wave of contemporary photography and dwell upon the topic that each work brings. 

'Supervisions' series creates the photographic effect of not having restrictions in the air even for the photos of man-made structures and interiors of the buildings. In face, in order to derive this way of result, the artist's unique sophisticated process and correction work should inevitably be colligated with each other. Through this process, according to the author's way of expression, the photographs that seem to be taken while 'flying in the air' are born. For the results like this, the artist takes numerous photographs at the height of about three meters and extracts exactly one final image per one square meter. He then performs a series of steps by utilizing digital technique to exquisitely interconnect these images. Although the photographs are taken from the maximum height of three meters, the actual results seem to be taken from the space that is significantly apart from the ground. This production is not unrelated to the artist's childhood history of being absorbed into astronomy. 

'The Japan Series' began when the artist traveled to Japan several times and found interest in the structures the thane special characteristics of Japan that cannot be easily observed in Europe, such as telephone poles and their accessories. As opposed to the previously explained series 'Supervisions,' 'The Japan Series' was photographed by looking up the telephone poles. Through meticulously set composition, the artist shoots two images that are juxtaposed against each other based on the telephone pole and erases this pole doing the process of post-digitization; therefore, the end result creates a scene with various accessories and electrical lines installed in the air. 

While the artist showed how the structures in the human-dominated cities and their natural environments have been transformed to become optimized in 'Supervisions' series, he takes one step further in 'The Japan Series' by showing that these structures ultimately mimic the behavior and appearance of living organisms. 

*image (left)
© Andreas Gefeller
courtesy of the artist and Gallery Baton