Sunday Artist 11/9

Lajos Geenen

Geenen questions the belief in the reality of the photograph. We have often discussed the association between photography and the real world, which is what sets photography apart from other arts. Whenever an artist wants to show the viewer that something has happened, or that something was created, they turn to photography, whether they are sculptors, painters, performance artists or photographer by definition. In journalism, a strict code of ethics binds photographers and, by publishing a photographer, the media stands by its truth. Geenen's work asks how real the imagery is. Each element in his work did, technically, happen, but it is doubtful that it would have happened without him forcing it. Does this make the photograph any less real? Were these elements even in the same place at the same time? Geenen often asks these unanswerable questions.

Geenen has his own website (http://www.lajos.nu/) and can also be researched here:
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=613&which=&aid=424415248&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com