Sinless

 

It’s hard not be fascinated by the pristine visions of Jan Koster. Words sometime are not enough to tell about artwork. His work on dutchscapes photographs express the need to embrace that “something” which hides behind beauty. We could name it nature, world, universe. It’s this tension that releases emotions and reflects the essential human desire of pushing the view beyond. Describe beauty with images rather than words. There is a inner silence radiated from the most intact landscapes. A silence that comes from harmony as a balanced expression of the elements that compose visual perception. Elements that Koster represent with ability, by measuring the shapes and lines, by mixing colors and light in a discreet and never aggressive poetry. With the series Sine Labe Concepta the Dutch photographer seems to move forward his linguistic expressivity to a higher complexity. A thought which we find also in his words.

 

«Sine Labe Concepta is a new series that sits in between the Dutchscapes-series and the Havana-series. It starts where the first ends, the Dutch coast, and it ends where the second starts, a statue of Maria, the mother of Christ. The photo´s of Sine Labe Concepta are made in European cities, like Venice, Porto, London, Berlin and Saintes Maries de la Mer, a village in the delta of the river Rhone. The reason why I named this series Sine Labe Concepta is that I wanted to refer to the Catholic Church, which institution, I think, had the biggest influence on the history of Europe. The title, which is on the last photo of the series, is one of the dogma´s of the Catholic Church. It means immaculate conception and that is a construction of the reality too.»

 

 

Photo:

© Courtesy of Jan Koster

www.jankoster.info

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