Marc Brandenburg's elaborate pencil drawings are characterised by their meticulousness and love of detail. With the distanced gaze of a beholder, he photographs familiar and intimate objects, capturing new perspectives on everyday scenes - usually in his hometown of Berlin. He then takes these photographs as the material for his works, transferring them onto paper in a negative process. His oeuvre is marked by contrasts. He not only employs black-and-white as a stylistic device for his sketches, but also reverses what we normally see. He transforms the originally coloured image into the clear black-and-white of a pencil drawing. To create an even larger distance, he inverts this process once again so that his drawings appear to be negatives: what was light becomes dark, and what was black becomes white. Although his works are representational, his approach creates an abstracted image, defamiliarises the familiar and offers new perspectives on everyday life.

Photography: Roland Horn
Courtesy Marc Brandenburg
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