Art De Fact

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/Collage
• Photographer
  Andreas Kremer
• Agency / Studio
  Imverbund Gmbh
• Technical Info
  Ongoing Project, Photography+digital Collages, No Ai Is Used!
• Photo Date
  2023-2024

In "Art de fact" I reflect on the zeitgeist, which seems increasingly surreal to me due to its instability, unpredictability and unreality. If today efficacy means more than truth, virtuality increasingly replaces physical reality, and affects dominate meaning and reason, then (only) art can provide support, orientation and meaning. In my opinion art should not communicate moral or political convictions but represent plurality and ambivalence. The work is based on photography. I work digitally “by hand” (photoshop), use collages and montages, no AI is used.

Andreas Kremer, living in Cologne/Germany, began his artistic path after he had worked successfully in business for many years. Never losing touch with photography during the years, 2014 he changed his focus completely to photography as visual art, and hasn’t put down his camera since. The fascination for Japan culminated in his first photo book TENSION in 2019 (KERBER Verlag). Since 2020 he is using the collage technique in a modern, digital form in his ongoing project “The Last Resort”, following the tradition of using collages to point out social or political grievances.