Photograph taken by Thomas Dahmen:
Mareen Fischinger / Cologne / 2011
- Third photo from my series “Photographers”. Taken today on Mareen’s “Panografie” vernissage at 4010 Telekom Shop in Cologne. It was really fun taking the picture of her. I really love her work ( you can find it at mareenfischinger.de ). She influenced me a lot. -
(Polaroid EE 100 SPECIAL / Fuji FP-3000B)
Thank you for coming, the pictures and the talks!
Here is the whole »triple Panograph« of Cologne that I have taken and assembled over weeks this summer.
You can find Rheinauhafen on the left, Colonius (radio tower) in the center and Hohenzollernbrücke with the Dom (Cologne Cathedral) on the right.
Two of them will be with Lumas soon, they are already signed. In the mean time, you may ask me.

Taken yesterday from 2-7pm, while Mats and Vivs and I were building up the panograph on the wall at 4010.
Vernissage Mareen Fischinger / 4010 Telekom Shop / Cologne / 2011 #mareen (Taken with instagram)
Mats is talking to me and Marc is talking to Leah.
dubliner: »Was in LUMAS London today — spotted Mareen’s work on the wall.
Well done! Looks ace…«
Yay, thanks! It is going around the globe.
If you like, send a photo with a panograph at your LUMAS gallery.
Save the date!
If you would like to see an excerpt of my Panographs in the exhibition »Interieur – Exterieur« at the Parisian LUMAS Gallery from February 18 til March 22, 2011.
I will be present at the vernissage on February 17 at 6pm. You should come, too!
(Déjà-vu: Yes, I had another exhibition in Paris exactly one year before this one.)
fvp:
Felix von Pless
German, born 1981Thursday Morning, Pullman Bercy Hotel, Paris, Feb. 18, 2010
A Hommage to Mr. Hockney© Felix von Pless
Yes finally. I have been waiting for this for over a month! 2010!
Thanks Felix, it was a great idea to make this.
Felix, my family and I spent time at the same hotel in Paris, in two rooms (on the same floor within eyesight), my room was almost identical to this one. And I was soooo sick there while they all (+ Eric, Stefan) got to explore Paris. I must say though, the hotel was wonderful and I liked it for the time being.
You should come to my first solo exhibition in another country!
I have known about this for about ten months and worked hard for it. My biggest self-produced/directed project so far, most of the eleven images have never been seen before & will be between 100 to 180 cm wide, all are open editions of 10.
Vernissage 18 Feb 2010, 6pm til 9pm
Exhibition dates 19 Feb - 20 Mar 2010
at Galerie Bailly Contemporain, 25 quai Voltaire, 75007 Paris
(by the Louvre)


The invitation poster reads:
The photographs
The supposedly »false« photographs, such as high-angle, low-angle, and side views add to an image that amazes the viewer. The secret of its effect is the replication of natural ocular perspective and distortion, while the apparent shortening demonstrates how the eye works as it records visual phenomena and filters our perceived experience through an associative bond: composing into a mental image onto a medium.
Mareen Fischinger’s panographs connect the wrong with the right, where there is no wrong and no right. The instrument is being turned into a reliable resource of objective vision: the juxtaposition and joining of perspectives, shot from one position and furthermore suggesting the super perspective, while also providing a time sequence. Objects double or triple, capturing the ephemeral metamorphosis of the moment.
The viewer can see and experience the world with completely different eyes. The results are technical masterpieces: mosaic photography consisting of hundreds of individual photos, each showing high-resolution detail.
The artist
The young photographer works all over the world but focuses most often on Berlin and New York. Loyal to Düsseldorf, where she studied, Mareen Fischinger set up her studio in the city which saw the creation of the Becher School, »The School of Perception«, linked to industrial architecture.
At the end of the ’90s, Mareen Fischinger wasn’t 15 when she discovered photography. Bound to the necessity of a university education, she turned toward design & communication in 2004. She handled all types of media and tried several artistic fields. It is, however, the »creation of images« that she chose at the end of her studies, a voluntary term to describe her photographs to which she brings skilled retouching and editing. Today, her first and only profession enables her to develop her passion and creativity. She loves to involve herself in all aspects of the creative process of her projects, including the digital portion. Her training allows her to approach the subject with detachment and consider it in the global context.
In a time when industrialization is in the past (the Bechers in particular), Mareen Fischinger is taking a new look at her contemporaries, architecture or spaces of everyday life that she breaks apart, illuminates or dehumanizes.
(This poster was designed by tristan schmitz and myself.)
Let me know if you would like a »real« print invite. You can download the PDF here.