Hansjurgen Bauer
A Brief History Of The Crusades—Holy Mother Inside The Walls Of Constantinople, 2012. Photomontage.
My image world consists of peoples and landscapes unfamiliar to most, perceivably strange and ethereal, where place and subject merge fact and fiction; hinterlands where the veil has been lifted, far-flung outposts, port cities of the imagination, haunted territories, transition points between worlds, whirlpools spilling into parallel dimensions, shrouded lands straddling the waypoints between desire and dreams. The whole world, everything we consider sane and normal, might well be a leather ball filled with air. In some places, the leather has been scuffed away to nothing. Ideally, my images transport the viewer to those landscapes of magical realism where the dividing line is thinner; masked, mystical, chimerical cities and citizens of the mind, at great distance, but near enough to touch. hansbauergallery.com 80