Ikarus 写真アート作品 by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀賞 in 写真・フォトマニピュレーションデザイン Competition Category.

銀写真· 2022

Ikarus 写真アート作品

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in 写真 Category

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The Design

About Ikarus 写真アート作品

「Ikarus（イカルス）」は、絶滅種または絶滅の危機に瀕した鳥類の剥製標本を捉えた写真シリーズである。各々の鳥はレンブラントの絵画を思わせる手法で描き出され、それぞれの肖像の背景には、その鳥自身の羽根をマクロ撮影した画像が用いられている。標本の撮影は、ドイツ・ドレスデンにあるゼンケンベルク研究所の鳥類学コレクションにて行われた。タイトルは、高く飛びすぎて海に落ちたイカロスの伝説に由来する。「Ikarus」は「Neglect（ネグレクト）」と題されたシリーズコレクションの第三部にあたる。作品はChromaLuxe素材を用い、限定エディションとして制作されている。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀賞

Ikarus 写真アート作品は、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。Ikarus 写真アート作品は、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。Ikarus 写真アート作品は、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Here are photographed specimens of animals, most of whose species are extinct. For this series Dr. Martin Päckert, the head of the ornithology section of the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, he supported me very dedicated in my work.
In painting, the foolish or overconfident person is often depicted as Icarus.
Dimensions & Packaging: Produced artworks are in the size 120 x 90cm, 80 x 60cm available. All strictly limited to 5/10 pieces.
Tags: animals, photography, endangered, extinct, birds, environment, portrait, Rembrandt
Production Technology: Digital Photography, produced on ChromaLuxe material.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to set the prepared birds in scene like in a Rembrandt painting. The background of the portraits is a macro-photography of the feathers of each bird.
Research: I found that in the collection of the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden the most rare examples of extinct bird species are collected.
From a project before I had the contacts to the institute and they immediately said yes, when I asked to photograph the examples for my project. Then Dr. Martin Päckert helped me a lot with the taxonomy and the names and the origin of the birds and the preparations.
Inspiration: We know the legend of Icarus, whose father Daedalus built wings of feathers and wax for himself and his son to escape from the captivity of Minos on Crete. The son Icarus became overconfident, the wax melted, he fell into the sea. Despite his father’s warnings.
Despite warnings and admonitions, we spiral into ever higher and warmer and warmer climes, and the crash is not far away. Okay, maybe that’s a bit drastic and striking. But all photographed birds are either extinct or highly endangered.
Project Duration: It took nearly a year of research and preparation, two days of shooting and around 2 weeks of post-production.
Operation Flow: This is the third series of my collection of series, called NEGLECT. All endangered or extinct species.
I had the wonderful chance to photograph in the ornithology institue of the Senckenberg Institutes in Dresden, Germany.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Florian W. Mueller, 2022.
Image Credits: Credits:
Leica Camera Germany
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden
ChromaLuxe
Photography Zingst