Ansgar Noeth

Ansgar Noeth is represented by Strychnin Gallery NYC Berlin London. Please contact gallery owner Yasha Young via yasha(at)strychnin.com about works for sale and exhibitions. Thank you.
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Ansgar Noeth is an artist working on the borderline of sculpture and photography. Using a highly durable and complex printing process, his works - which are sometimes life-sized - are printed directly behind glass and then presented standing freely in heavy, solid bases. These bold yet fragile images are completely unique and yet hauntingly familiar as they recall the colorful and majestic appearance of traditional church windows.
Quite fittingly, in one of his first series to be printed on glass, Noeth quotes Christian mythology. “We are predominantly raised with Christian values in the Western hemisphere,” he says, “which lend these images their very own context of meaning, a set of almost inexplicable symbolic references.” Although he often lets his models adopt traditional poses – such as those depicted by German Renaissance painter Lukas Cranach the Elder – they always remain linked to the present. Tattooed and pierced, they are modern-day saints and sinners, white-washed for anonymity and yet solid in their presence, telling their stories in the here and now. Despite this contemporary element, they remain almost timeless in their subtlety. The contrast between the transparent, fragile material of his prints and the threatening and sometimes intimidating depths of their imagery is discovered only by those who watch closely.

Noeth’s works have been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States.