Marc Räder – Scanscape
http://www.parrotta.de/artists/marc-raeder/17.shtml
»Scanscape is Utopia, a non-city, which dispenses with any culture and history, and which character can best be described with the word simulacrum: the morphology of an onion, that – after taken apart – shows, that it doesn’t have a core, but simply exists of an accumulation of wrappers.« Marc Räder. With the series »Scanscape«, which was made in the middle of the nineties in California, the Gallery Parrotta shows works of the 1966 born, in Berlin living photographer Marc Räder. His photographs reflect the optional exclusion, standardisation and non-historiography of life in Gated Communities for middle and upper class people. By use of a partially depth of field Marc Räder succeeds in formally bringing out the artificiality of those cities, that they themselves take on the character of models, as we know from images of architectural models and dollhouses. The first fascination about the appearance of toy landscapes fall over in horror about the »reality« of those cities.
