Maximilian Prüfer

Maximilian Prüfer has been working on the development of his own new printing system: the so-called “Naturantypie”. Using it, he makes a record of natural movements, processes and phenomena.  Because of the sensitive surface of the printing area he is enabled to catch and illustrate the slightest movements: the wing beats of moths passing by lamps or the tracks ants leave behind. He uses the printing area for a seismograph of the smallest as-is states. Prüfer works on philosophical questions and analogies concerning man and questions the world with regards to its contents, independent of the point of view prominent in man. 

Thus, he makes visible unconscious processes of primitive life forms. He poses questions concerning existence when picturing the liveliness of a dead fish.

Maximilian Prüfer’s oeuvre does not only consist of highly aesthetical objects, but is made of real images created through a conceptual examination of the world. What is fascinating about his work is the unique methodological processing as well as the novelty prominent in his aesthetics. Using his method, he widens the potentials of drawing when displaying motion independent of tools.

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer