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(Archive) Pieces for Flute

Recorder photo exhibition with various witticisms and visual figurines. Product photography but different.

This project was part of DDW 2022
Flierefluiturisme, 2022 — © © Hans van Asch

The Pieces for Flute series consists of a number of photographic works based on recorders. The photo works are created through visual associations and linguistic witticisms. They are photoworks in which thinking in imagination transforms itself into a playful yet strict form.

Pieces for Flute

What motivates a photographer to photograph recorders? With recorders, isn't it all 'straightforward in terms of the visual form? If you look closely at a recorder, there is quite a bit to experience. The different colors of the wood, the slight variations in shape, the black holes and sometimes the beautiful woodwork of the mouthpiece. When a piece of recorder can suddenly be a pipe, black holes take a walk like dotted lines and small pieces of mitered recorder look like bird houses, there is space for new shapes. But above all, let's not forget that you can also whistle on a recorder. No violent sounds but frivolity at its best. Whistling has something lyrical about it and precisely this, in combination with the apparent rigidity of the straight form, provides a motivation to 'break through' the visual form of the recorder. This figurative 'breakthrough' is the challenge to which the artist must relate. Visual poetry is the result. An image is created, a sculptural image that is photographed. The photography here is the witness of the final end result.

Plumbing, 2022 — © © Hans van Asch

Zonder Titel, 2021 — © © Hans van Asch

Zigzaggend, 2022 — © © Hans van Asch

Partituur II, 2022