pigmentbased inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photorag Ultrasmooth 305g

Michael Goldgruber shows the natural where it breaks with the usual images of nature. His views of the melting glaciers thus sometimes seem like the area of a gravel works, where human intervention is just transforming back into natural structures. Yet at the same time, the sublime dimension of his motifs and the drama they contain of the approaching climate catastrophe bring into focus the fact that we don't think of nature as nearly large and differentiated enough, as philosopher Birgit Recki says. With monumentality that is overwhelming in every respect, Michael Goldgruber's works pose the most important questions of the moment, and one of them is: how do we stand in the world - as a part or as an enemy of the whole?
(see: Birgit Recki, Nature and Technology. Eine Komplikation, Berlin 2021, pp. 14 and 33)