Portfolio – Surreal Suburban Reflections

Manfred Krautschneider “Map to my brain” 2018, archival pigment print

Manfred Krautschneider “Dystopia” 2018, archival pigment print

Manfred Krautschneider “Echo” detail 2018, archival pigment print edition of 8

Manfred Krautschneider – “Liaison” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Witness” 2020, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Alien paradise” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Dissolve” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Dream and reality” – 2016, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Endurance of prehistory” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider = “Machinations” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Messy” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “On my watch” 2016, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Monkey business” 2016, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Spectral dialogue” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “At the well” 2013, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Resistance” 2012, Wilson Art Award Finalist, archival pigment print, edition of 5.

Manfred Krautschneider – “Fire arpeggio” 2013, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – Lightning generator” 2014, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Selfie” 2014, Moreton Bay Regional Art Award Finalist, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Balance” 2012, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Broken” 2017, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Construct” 2012, Art Prize Finalist, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Meld”, 2012, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Dialogue” 2012, Moreton Bay Regional Art Award Finalist, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Primary / Transient” 2012 Archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider – “Terrible Beauty 2” 2016, Wyndham Art Prize and Fishers Ghost Art Award Finalist

Manfred Krautschneider – “Terrible Beauty” 2105, The M Collection Art Award Finalist, archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider “Progress” 2012

Manfred Krautschneider – “And how’s the kids?”

Manfred Krautschneider – “Dearly Departed”

Manfred Krautschneider – “Haunted”

Manfred Krautschneider – “Premonition no 2”

Manfred Krautschneider – Rooster at Dali’s funeral

Manfred Krautschneider – “Whispers as the dead are sleeping” 2013

Manfred Krautschneider “Coffee High” 2012, Highly Commended – Border Art Prize, Archival pigment print, edition of 5

Manfred Krautschneider, “Pensive” 2012, Sunshine Coast Art Prize Finalist, archival pigment print, edition of 5

This is a small selection of my reflections photographs. Widely exhibited on the east coast of Australia, they are typically 115 x 90 cm framed, and sold in editions of 5.

In the past reflections on glass would often be quite distorted. This led me to believe that some modernism, including surrealism and even cubism may have been inspired by direct observation, of reflections, and the superimpositions seen on and through glass.

I have been documenting such reflections for more than a decade. These studies have also been shown widely because of their mysterious relationship to contemporary art. I find myself drawn to a social reading of them, conjuring up fears of alienation and conflict.

Successive series presented more extensive distortions, and one could mistake them for contemporary paintings. Successfully holding the border between recognition and abstraction, these photographs transform the suburban streetscape into transcendent images.