Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Strieborná cena A' Design Award in Fotografia Competition Category.

StriebornáFotografia· 2022

Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

Strieborná cena A' Design Award Winner in Fotografia Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo

Ikarus je fotografická séria zobrazujúca konzervované exempláre vtákov z vyhynutých alebo vysoko ohrozených druhov. Každý vták je zobrazený v štýle Rembrandtovho obrazu a pozadím každého portrétu je makrofotografia peria daného vtáka. Exempláre boli fotografované v ornitologickej zbierke Senckenbergovho inštitútu v Drážďanoch v Nemecku. Názov odkazuje na legendu o Ikarovi, ktorý letel príliš vysoko a spadol do mora. Ikarus je treťou časťou sériovej kolekcie s názvom Neglect. Diela sú vyhotovené na materiáli ChromaLuxe v limitovaných edíciách.

The Recognition

About the Strieborná cena A' Design Award

Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo je laureát Striebornej ceny A' Design Award, mimoriadne prestížneho uznania udeľovaného nádherným, pôsobivým dizajnom najvyššej kvality. Laureáti Striebornej ceny sú nesmierne brilantné a mimoriadne kreatívne diela, ktoré ilustrujú výnimočnú odbornosť, talent a bystrosť svojich dizajnérov. Od Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo sa očakáva, že bude úžasným, vzorovým dielom, pozoruhodne profesionálnym a hlboko inovatívnym. Tento dizajn ocenený Striebornou cenou A' Design Award je veľmi pozoruhodný, obdivovaný vynález, ktorý prináša úžitok a posúva hranice umenia, vedy, dizajnu a technológie. Ikarus Fotografické umelecké dielo je výtvor, ktorému mnohí závidia, ktorý vzbudzuje túžby, prináša pozitívne pocity a vyvoláva úžas a údiv.

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