Ikarus Opus Photographicum by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Opus Photographicum by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Photographia Competition Category.

ArgentumPhotographia· 2022

Ikarus Opus Photographicum

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Photographia Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Opus Photographicum

Ikarus est series photographica specimina avium conservata monstrans ex speciebus exstinctis vel valde periclitantibus. Quaeque avis more picturae Rembrandtianae exprimitur, et fundus omnis imaginis est photographia macroscopica pennarum illius avis. Specimina in collectione ornithologica Instituti Senckenbergiani Dresdae in Germania photographata sunt. Titulus ad fabulam Icari refert, qui nimis alte volavit et in mare cecidit. Ikarus tertia pars est collectionis serierum quae Neglect appellatur. Opera in materia ChromaLuxe editionibus limitatis producuntur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Ikarus Opus Photographicum victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Ikarus Opus Photographicum opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Ikarus Opus Photographicum creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

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