In an unusual approach, Viennese photographer Ouriel Morgensztern engaged with the Museum of the Heidi Horten Collection. His perspective is deliberately subjective: Morgensztern does not focus on the whole, but on the detail, which—through extreme cropping and framing, as well as the interplay of light and shadow—acquires a distinct formal and aesthetic quality of its own. At the same time, Morgensztern consistently manages to maintain a delicate balance: the architecture of the building is both present and absent in his photographs. The same applies to the visitors and the art for which the museum was created. Even in their physical absence, they remain “present” in Morgensztern’s images.
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