ANDREAS H. BITESNICH
MORE NUDES
28.10.2008–07.01.2009
The exhibition Andreas H. Bitesnich. More Nudes will be showing Bitesnich’s work from the book of the same name. With around 70 photographs WestLicht is drawing the viewer’s attention to the depiction of the abstract beauty of the human body.
Andreas H. Bitesnich is regarded as one of the best nude photographers in the world. His works are characterised by careful lighting, exceptional figural composition and a remarkable positioning of the subjects. By transforming human bodies and profiles into kinetic compositions he introduces the viewer to a completely unusual and surprising way of seeing.
Moving, perfectly controlled and tense bodies fascinate Bitesnich particularly: dancers, acrobats and sportsmen and women therefore often serve him as models to depict human proportion and posture. The way Bitesnich arranges the bodies and how he often puts the resulting compositions on pedestals seems to transform the models into ancient sculptures rather than living beings. The hereby obtained graphic aspect always takes priority over erotism.
Andreas H. Bitesnich, born in 1964 in Vienna, begins to make photographs in 1988 as an autodidact. In 1993 his work is rpart of the group show Photographien in the Galerie Würthle in Vienna. His first book, Nudes, is published in 1998 and wins the Kodak Photography Book Award. Further books follow: Polanude, on form, Woman, Nudes, Travel and a special photography edition of Stern magazine. His works were shown in well-known institutions such as the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe in Hamburg, Kunsthaus Wien and in galleries all over the world. They are also regularly published in international magazines. Bitesnich lives and works in Vienna.
»Something inside tells me that there is almost nothing more beautiful than a continuous rediscovery of the human body.« Andreas H. Bitesnich
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