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Good pictures are not about depicting or reproducing motifs, but rather about creating a scope for interpretation in which the viewer can see and experience what is depicted again and again in new ways.
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Peter MATHIS demonstrates this with masterful confidence in his pictures of the Dolomites. The dualistic principle of chiaroscuro design is an essential focus here. He works with light, the shadow zones it creates and their gradations like a painter with the colors of his palette.
In one picture, a mountain lift that seems hamless at first glance, through composition and use of contrasts, looks like a brutal intervention in nature and the viewer cannot escape the emergence of an oppressive feeling.
Then there are other groups of images in which the physical heaviness of mountains and mountain ranges is optically completely canceled out and the viewer can completely reinterpret the familiar. The massive, inaccessible, overwhelming, with which we normally associate the mountain world, is given the character of the delicate, vulnerable, phenomenal and leaves the viewer in speechless astonishment.
Über den Fotografen, Peter MATHIS (*1961)