Wolfgang Oelze

Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2014
96 pages, 24 x 32 cm, 70 plates, thread-stitching, softcover, German/English
ISBN 978-3-95763-095-7 (order here)

Including texts by Jens Asthoff and Thomas Macho

“Motifs of inclusion and smoke are recurring visual elements in the photo and video work of Wolfgang Oelze. They characterize how he visually addresses voids, labyrinths, bunkers, mounds, quarries and catacombs, or fuzzy spots in various spaces, which first come across like places of memory without disclosing the contents of the memory. In some places, slender plumes of smoke arise without a visible source of fire, spreading like ground mist in the scattered sunlight like local ectoplasms, apparitions in haunted locations that invoke no wars, acts of violence, or sacrificial rituals. [....] They are the effects of the formlessness that correspond to one’s own unconscious – and a respect for the power of this unconscious.” (Thomas Macho)

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Supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg