Alfred Seiland Imperium RomanumOpus Extractum

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Texts by: Dr. Marcus Trier German, English November 2013, 144 Pages, 55 Ills. Hardcover 296mm x 245mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-3699-2

For many years now, Alfred Seiland (*1952 in St. Michael, Austria) has been visiting antique sites around the Mediterranean, capturing them with his analog, large-format camera. His destinations are the ruins of the Roman Empire from Egypt, Libya, and Israel to Italy, and the museums of Spain to Turkey. His motifs are often difficult to access—some are not public places and otherwise hidden from tourists. Seiland’s photographs confront the viewer with themes that shed light on the conflict between antiquity and modernity. They mirror famous showplaces of history with their architecture, sculpture, and works of art.Alfred Seiland condenses moments into perfect compositions, employing color like a painter. Nevertheless, some of the photographs are unsettling, because they time and again tell of the destruction by humans of antique legacies.  Exhibition schedule: Römisch Germanisches Museum, Cologne November 8, 2013–March 30, 2014 | Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembur,g October 10, 2014–February 15, 2015 | And further venues

»These images show how we're still living under the Roman yoke.«

Sunday Times Weekend Magazine


»...Mr. Seiland gives his photos a soft-edged wonder that makes them far more than jokes about how the present differs from the ast.«

The Wall Street Journal