„Markus Brunetti's enormous photographs pack a healthy jolt of wonder, something more likely felt in the 19th century, when the medium was invented.“
„Markus Brunetti's dazzling images of church facades (like Lichfield, Cathedral, 2014-2017 above) take weeks to photograph and years to digitally construct. At Yossi Milo gallery through March 17.“
„German photographer Markus Brunetti has taken a unique, digital approach to photographing historic monuments. Instead of capturing the buildings and subjects in one shot, Brunetti takes thousands of high resolution, detail shots of a single monument before digitally compiling the images into one larger-than-life portrait.“
„But with the benefit of hindsight and a more deliberate dose of looking at his new images from the ongoing series, I am happy to admit that I underestimated (or misunderstood) Brunetti‘s motivations.“
„A breathtaking survey of sacred architecture is on view in the exhibition Markus Brunetti: FACADES- Grand Tour Yossi Milo. Part of an ongoing series of work, the large-scale prints are a tribute to the complex architectural history of European architecture. Structures from Poland, Norway, Spain, Italy and Portugal, among others, are on view.“
„Markus Brunetti‘s photographs of European churches may not rank with the sublimely typological pictures of architecture by his fellow-Germans Bernd and Hilla Becher, but they are striking accomplishments in their own right.“
„Ornate architectural grandeur, captured in thousands of digital photograph.“
„The exhibit is a result of continuous travel and works with his partner, Betty Schoener, in their self-contained computer lab on wheels. Brunetti exhaustively photographs each facade from bottom to top, taking thousands of high-resolution frames over the course of time.“
„To me, they‘re akin to photographic drawings on paper similar to the architects‘ or builders‘ original plans and the engravings of Old Masters,“ says Milo.
„El artista alemán Markus Brunetti lleva desde 2005 fotografiando iglesias y catedrales de toda Europa para mostrarlas desde una perspectiva completamente frontal, imposible para el ojo humano.“
„At first glance, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is simply a photography show, featuring images of various famous churches - but looks can be very deceiving. For more than a decade, Brunetti and partner Betty Schoner have traveled around.“
„In the tradition of Bernd and Hilla Becher’s serial documentation of German industrialization, Brunetti records the façade of each structure in a precise and regulated manner.“
„The approach: shooting a few square inches of a building at a time, from top to bottom, taking thousands of pictures…. over several weeks - or years…..“
„Never have churches been depicted in such a way.“
„Viewers of the Facades series- over a hundred churches so far- may find themselves a little disturbed. The precision brought to representing the architecture is troubling. What has happened to the cathedrals of Cologne, Chartres, or Paris?“
„Look closely: these aren’t a sightseer’s snapshots.“
„Chazen exhibit blows up cathedral photographs with precise detail“
„Denn diese geheimnisvoll-hyperrealistischen Aufnahmen, mit denen Brunetti in den vergangenen Monaten in den internationalen Medien stürmischen Beifall erntete, lassen einen die Gotteshäuser von Chartres oder Reims, von Orvieto oder Rom in einer derart magischen Vergegenwärtigung erleben, dass man glaubt, sie zum ersten Mal richtig zu sehen.“
„Brunetti photographie chaque fragment tel un scanner de haute définition pour ensuite réunir numériquement toutes ses images en un ensemble cohérent.“
„The large photographic images at Yossi Milo of Markus Brunetti’s Facades series are completely mesmerizing as he has chosen some of the most beautiful buildings of cathedrals and churches from Moorish, Renaissance and Gothic periods and rendered them in such exquisite detail that they almost feel like etchings.“
“both the wholes and the details of these wondrous structures with an accuracy far surpassing the human eye” “astonishing”
„Né d'un père architecte, Markus Brunetti s'est tôt intéressé à la photographie numérique en ce qu'elle aurait le potentiel de représenter les façades le plus objectivement possible, sans distorsion, avec la perspective la plus effacée possible. Pour lui la façade des bâtiments ne doit pas être telle que le piéton la contemple, mais telle que l'architecte l'a conçue.“
„Seamless Digital Collages Capture Europe’s Church Facades“
„A bit like the real Chartres, Markus Brunetti‘s photo of the French cathedral must be seen in person to be appreciated.“
„The Photograph Jerry Saltz Can’t Stop Thinking About“
„Markus Brunetti Exquisitely Photographs the Cathedrals of Europe“
„Out of scale! Entitled Facades, Markus Brunetti’s technical drawings express the monumental nature of great religious buildings.“
„Divine intervention: Markus Brunetti´s imposing architectural icons“
„The German photographer has been traveling across Europe, capturing the exteriors of churches in minute detail“
“The longer I work on ‘Facades,’ the more I am fascinated by the variety and complexity ofthe buildings.“
„The German photographer Markus Brunetti doesn’t have a home. For the past 10 years, he has been traveling through Western Europe in a truck with his partner, Betty Schoener, photographing the facades of churches, cathedrals and cloisters in minute detail.“
„Brunetti transforms them into the most exquisite of time capsules, laden with the coded iconography of bygone centuries.“
„La Découverte“
„Markus Brunetti’s monumental series, Facades, is the closest thing you’ll get to a modern-day Grand Tour, capturing European cathedrals and churches in the kind of extraordinary detail that eludes even first-hand experience.“
„Avec ses impressionnantes „façades“ d´eglises, Markus Brunetti réinvente la photographie d´architecture“
„Seine Bilder strahlen eine stille Erhabenheit aus, die Betrachter sofort in ihren Bann zieht: Markus Brunetti fotografiert die sakralen Bauwerke Europas in kompromisslos frontaler Perspektive. Das MAKK zeigt seine Werke großformatig - darunter auch den Kölner Dom.“
„Neun Jahre lang hat Markus Brunetti Kirchen in der ganzen Welt fotografiert. Seine spektakulären Werke sind jetzt in einer Schau im Kölner Museum für angewandte Kunst zu bestaunen. Ein Pflichttermin nicht nur für Liebhaber des Doms.“
„Hinter dem schlichten Titel "FACADES. Kathedralen, Kirchen, Klöster in Europa" verbirgt sich ein spektakuläres Projekt mit atemberaubenden Bildern.“
„»Hingehen! Ansehen!«, mehr möchte ich eigentlich gar nicht über die Ausstellung FACADES von Markus Brunetti im MAKK schreiben. Denn weder die hier darstellbaren Bilder noch schönste Worte können den tatsächlichen Eindruck dieser 29 Werke wirklich wiedergeben.“
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