Markus Brunetti. Facades

However, today “Markus Brunetti / FACADES. Kathedralen, Kirchen, Klöster in Europa” opens this architectural photography exhibition at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, Germany.

“Facades” is an attempt to create a visual encyclopedia of the many different histories of sacred European architecture through the means of twenty-first-century photography.

Since 2005 Markus Brunetti has set out on a long journey through Europe that is still going on today, capturing the continent’s most famous cathedrals, churches, and cloisters in his photographs such as the Notre Dame de Reims, Catedral de Burgos, Frauenkirche Dresden or Santa Croce Florence from a frontal perspective, but he also discovers gems such as the village church in Cortegaça, Portugal, shown here with its Azulejos, which he photographed with the same devotion and attention he gives to its more famous “big” sisters.

In the subsequent editing Markus Brunetti removes all people, animals and other vestiges of daily, his photos leaves an impression of the construction that allows the viewer to focus fully on the architectural work. Any observer standing in front of Markus Brunetti’s large photographs immediately senses the quiet grandeur of the pictures. Brunetti is a great “picture maker,” an “inventor of images” who captures and interprets the buildings in the same way that their architects originally imagined the designs on paper.

“Markus Brunetti / FACADES. Kathedralen, Kirchen, Klöster in Europa” / Markus Brunetti. Facades. Cathedrals, Churches, Cloisters in Europe.
 

When.- from 20 August to 14 December 2014.
Where.- MAKK. An der Rechtschule, Köln. Germany.