ENTRY DESCRIPTION
„Shell Island“
Shell Island is my surreal composition.
The landscape appears calm, deserted and mysterious.
It seems like the island's residents have left their homes.
The only survivor stayed. The prayer or lamentation goes to heaven
directed. Can Shell Island Still Be Saved? No water - no chance to survive ...

AUTHOR
Christoph Woloszyn was born in Poland. He has been living in Hagen with his family since 1987. In 2010 he took up his study of “Photo design” at the “Institut für Bildende Kunst und Kunsttherapie” (Institute of Fine Arts and Art Therapy ) in Bochum. He holds exhibitions in galleries and houses that are open to art photography. In his creative work he individually takes up questions, techniques and the Avandgardismus of the 20s of the last century to react as an artist to developments and discoveries of one Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has up to this day become a complicated but exciting journey into the dream, the transcendental and the super temporal. Nature and body are used as symbolic forces in his photographic paths. In these metamorphosis’s he varies the eternal topic: the human longing for harmony, for being one (with the natural environment), for “true” beauty.

Christoph Woloszyn is one of those who work their cameras professionally and innovatively. The man from Hagen uses light, technical effects and materials for the alienation of a motif to bring it closer to us, but in a different constellation and from a different point of view. The familiar becomes strange, the unknown exciting and new. For years this artist whose development has progressed amazingly fast and consequently has worked at his programme, his subjects and his stylistic direction. In his experimental imagery he works as a surrealist.


Jörg Loskill, Art historian, author and editor,
40 years cultural editor of the WAZ

Translations into English by Marion Grollich

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