Statement

By means of my works I try to invite the viewers to take a plunge into another, to him maybe unknown world; I want to provoke, demonstrate and to challenge long existing structures

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Exhibition: „YOU DO NOT TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH. YOU MAKE IT.

DEUTSCH: Mit Freude weise ich auf die nächste Ausstellung Mitte September hin. André Schäffer zeigt dort im Rahmen der Gruppenausstellung „YOU DO NOT TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH. YOU MAKE IT“, kuratiert von make-art-happening.com eine Auswahl Bilder aus der Serie „BIPOLAR“, Homepage Galerie: b74-luzern.ch Die Vernissage findet am 16. September 2022 ab 18:00 Uhr in der Galerie B74 statt. …

Art

Photography

Urban Exploration

Forgotten a long time ago. Still, time left its mark. Manifested in a memory, in a story, in an image. In the spotlight: decay – and the atmosphere. Staged by light. Unreal, touching…

Conceptual Photography

Social criticism overlayed by color. Actuall topics as content. Repulsive and delight likewise. staged threatening and mitigated with…

Beetle Theatre

Subject is the everyday (the mundane), the banal, the absurd, insect-bark as protagonists. A short text asks questions, may induce reflection. Or maybe just a smile…

Various photoprojects

Mostly I’ll go during the night. I wanna show the beauty of the darkness, the atmosphere, the silence…

Polaroid

Reduced to a bare minimum, instantaneously and authentic. No digital/analog post processing, no aperture and no precisely controllable shutter speed…

Composing

Portraits

Tief(T)raum

The Works are arisen from the subconsciousness, from a state of a waking dream, spontaneous inspirations/Images during…

Dreamscapes

Videography

Videography Urban Exploration

Drawings / Paintings

Drawings

The basis of the drawings are my photographs. It is my attempt to find the matching line for each motive.

Paintings

Objects

Trashglasses

In 2018 I started to create some objects with trash or electronic equpment I’ve found outside or some friends gave me…

Collaborations

„FAUTSCH“

Ein Autor und ein Fotograf gestalten in einem gemeinsamen Kunstprojekt eine Art Lexikon für die Wand. Am Anfang steht das Bild und gibt…

Artist

André Schäffer – Day of birth: 07. February 1985 / Contact: mail@andre-schaeffer.ch

Very early in my life I came into contact with photography. It must have been my father who sparked my interest in artistic work. We went on excursions to take pictures and developed the negatives in our darkroom. As if by miracle forms, figures and sceneries, which we had seen through the viewfinder before, now started to grow in the chemicals to a new and immobile „reality“.

During the successive years I got involved with image processing. I noticed that photography combined with electronic editing provides a large diversity of possibilities to visualise questions, emotions or opinions. By means of my works I try to invite the viewers to take a plunge into another, to him maybe unknown world; I want to provoke, demonstrate and to challenge long existing structures.

Press:

On May 10, 2022 an interview was published about my photo series „BIPOLAR“ and my approach in general. Unfortunately, the ad is only available in German. Here is the newspaper article photographed. And here is the online post.

Some article in the luzerner and zuger newspaper about my photographs. You will find the Article here. It’s only available in german.

Onlinebeitrag Luzerner Zeitung:https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/kultur/unheimlich-und-faszinierend-ein-luzerner-fotografiert-verlassene-orte-ld.1177393

Video portrait:

For the current exhibition in the well-known clinic „clinique la prairie“ I created a short artist portrait + thoughts on the exhibition theme/concept.

Equipment:

Polaroid SX-70 / Polaroid SX-70 Sonar / Polaroid Supercolour 635 CL
Nikon D800E /  Nikon D200 / Nikon F90X
2 x SB 900
AF Nikkor 24-120mm, 1:3.5-5.6D
Sigma 10-20mm, 1:4-5.6 DC
AF-S Micro Nikkor 105mm, 1:2.8G ED
AF-Nikkor 80-200mm 2,8D ED

Online plattforms:

Up & Coming
https://www.upandcoming.ch/artists/andre-schaffer

Artoffer
https://www.artoffer.com/Andre-Schaeffer/Galerie

Artworks.art
https://www.artworks.art/artists_de/andre_schaeffer.html

Artlimited
https://www.artlimited.net/15976