MANFRED WILLMANN – DAS LAND

The artist kept these entries for twelve years as a kind of subjective photographic diary that discloses not only the panorama, but the whole universe of different scenes that document the fullness of village life in the county. These expressive and suggestive, intimately charged photographs show particular landscape’s spirituality and beauty, enhancing and shading it by the presence of local inhabitants. Blended with the environment, fitted into it by the artist’s gesture, they seem to be grown together. “‘Das Land’ means the familiarity with this region, meeting the people and families that live there, their work, their homes, their friends”, says Willmann.