"Korrelationen" Robert Komarek

Robert Komarek, born in 1956 in Vienna, took up photography at a young age. In the early 1970s, he gained extensive technical knowledge through the Famous Photographers School (Westport, Conn., USA), which he sought to perfect thereafter.

Alongside portrait photography, landscape photography has always held a significant place in Komarek's body of work. Over the decades, various stays abroad have resulted in a collection of works that resembles a world tour: impressions from regions around the globe, shaped by the influences of each respective decade.

“The skin of our planet is landscape.

A skin that has been softened by humans over centuries—like Tuscany—and today caresses the viewer with its long-accepted aesthetics.

A skin, too, that has been tormented by humans over centuries—like the coal mines in Lower Silesia.

Finally, a skin that has been manipulated through countless transplants and urbanized by human settlement.

My task was to document the surface of this skin and to equip it with formal, thematic, or aesthetic barbs.”