Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Subjects & Themes - Portraits

Dieter Hall portrays man thrown back on himself. Ecce Homo, behold the man—without his social attributes, often nude, in splendid isolation. Hall seeks the common denominator—metonymically called the Naked Chair—of mere existence in the images of others’ (mostly male) bodies. He regards things, objects, gardens and landscapes with the same searching gaze. His minutely arranged still lifes—a glass, a flower, a chair – call to mind Bonnard and Matisse. Hall’s bare chairs are recurrent silent echoes of isolation and transience, intensified by the dark shadow the AIDS epidemic cast...