Taken during the 2023 photography festival in Arles, the iconic Luma building is transformed by digital overpainting into a vibrant composition between structure and drawing.
"Luma (2023)" is more than just architectural photography - it is a dialogue between light, form and line. The monumental façade becomes a playing field for fleeting, sketch-like figures that drift through the picture like spontaneous thoughts. Sometimes nervous, sometimes playful, always in contrast to the steely, powerful presence of the building.
A work about perception and appropriation - and about what arises in the encounter between the art site and the gaze.
I am Nick Enselmann and I work in my studio in Leipzig on abstract and expressionist works - on analogue and digital canvas.
My works move between bad painting and clear aesthetics. They open up spaces for perception, interpretation and dialogue. Colour, form and structure reflect the mutability of..
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