“People tend to talk about spectacular events, but I find it interesting to speak of the empty spaces between places and headline stories.” (Léopold Rabus, 2009)
“There
is something dramatically symphonic about these pictures. They seem to
belong to another unreal world and yet, they are imbued with the original
motifs of banal village life. Indeed one of the great surprises of this
art is that such grand opera emerges out of such modesty. An explosive
mixture of romance and the unfathomable, of bright scurrility and
religious fervor, streams out of this pictures, calling forth an unreal,
dreamlike occurrence like some ethereal balloon, rising up into a time
that flickers nervously and is measured in global beats.”
© Markus Stegmann, 2009