Kotscha Reist's pictures are based on photographic originals, which he freely interprets and sometimes also varies by transferring them to the picture support.

Kotscha Reist's pictures are based on photographic originals, which he transfers to the picture carrier in a freely interpreted and sometimes varied manner. Most of the references come from newspapers and magazines, but he also often uses his own or found photographs. At times shadowy and reserved, at times powerfully staged, a cosmos of topicality and history spreads out before the viewer. Landscapes and interiors are on an equal footing with figurative works. The motifs are diverse: however, branch structures, people with curious postures, window situations or animals can be found again and again - and often several versions of the same subject. The originals are alienated by enlarging or reducing them; he hides details or places them abruptly in the center or obscures individual parts of the picture. However, he always focuses on the supposedly banal, thereby distancing it from reality.
On the one hand, the pictures can show a view into a microcosm, on the other an almost macrocosmic representation of the world. In any case, they are snapshots torn from the timeline, sometimes completely decontextualized and placed in a new world - irritating fragments of a collective memory. The open structure leaves room for history and, above all, for stories. Banalities blur in the space of time and yet force themselves into the viewer's consciousness immediately and sometimes without wanting to.


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