"Lichtschein"

Carnaregio, Venice

analogue gelatin silver print on aluminum Dibond

signed, titled, dated, numberd (ink) on verso

Venice: city of surfaces, of colors, of all-encompassing light. Nikolaus Korab plunges it into the deep black of his night images. The photographs remove the city from the intoxicating staccato of image production and direct our eyes to an unknown, remote, dark Venice. Korab’s work with his analog large-format camera captures the anonymous architectures of the city’s “poor” and in no way picturesque quarters, imbuing them with a hitherto undreamed-of dignity removed from time. Korab’s photographs are also reflections on the medium of photography. The representational disappears, the narrative is eliminated, contrasts are sharpened. What remains are pure black and an economy of light. Korab, the meticulous flâneur, creates monumental set designs.