MASPIRIT

spirit_sol807_site127_cyl-A817R1 Sol810A_P2536_L456atc-A810R1 Sol810A_P2536_L257F-A810R1

SOL810A Sol758A_P2366_L257T-A758R1 Sol758A_P2366_L257F-A758R1

MERB_Sol1664_1 mcmurdo_MiplAtc_colorglyph2-A814R1 McMurdo_labeled

McMurdo_L257F-A814R1 Gibson_L257T-A751R1 Gibson_L257F-A751R1

SPIRIT © Klaus Hucourtesy NASA / JPL Caltech

EDITION of 20 digital prints on Hahnemühlen fine art photo PEARL 112 x 62 cm (W x H)

Calypso_L2R2ana Calypso_L257F Calypso_L257atc

Bonestell_1772A_L257F Bonestell_1772A_annotated 1198866020_960-2_Sol1369A_WestValley_L7R1ana

1198865273_31824-3_Sol1369A_WestValley_L257atc

1198865273_31824-1_Sol1369A_WestValley_L257F

1149540134_2052_Sol859A_McMurdo_L257F4x-A865R1

1149540134_2052_Sol859A_McMurdo_L257atc4x-A865R1

SPIRIT © Klaus Hucourtesy NASA / JPL Caltech

Gibson_L257F-A751R1

Gibson_L257T-A751R1

Sol810A_P2536_L257F-A810R1

Sol810A_P2536_L456atc-A810R1

1149540134_2052_Sol859A_McMurdo_L257atc4x-A865R1

1149540134_2052_Sol859A_McMurdo_L257F4x-A865R1

mcmurdo_MiplAtc_colorglyph2-A814R1

McMurdo_L257F-A814R1

McMurdo_labeled

1198865273_31824-3_Sol1369A_WestValley_L257atc

1198866020_960-2_Sol1369A_WestValley_L7R1ana

1198865273_31824-1_Sol1369A_WestValley_L257F

Bonestell_1772A_L257F

Bonestell_1772A_annotated

Calypso_L257F

Calypso_L257atc

Calypso_L2R2ana

Sol758A_P2366_L257F-A758R1

Sol758A_P2366_L257T-A758R1

SOL810A

spirit_sol807_site127_cyl-A817R1

MARS SPIRIT 2010

While questions of intellectual property and the era of financial crisis melt with strategies of survival, a recent and ongoing research is based on one fotographic series, shot by the ISS-astronauts, showing unknown and irritating beauty of the surface of the earth, blurring national borders and cultural identities into abstract essence.

RSJuxtaposing with one series of the Mars robot "Spirit" those panoramatic and fragmented images show empty and stony landscapes, sometimes in true color, sometimes in false color and sometimes in 3-D in low- and high resolution (bridgeing an up to 320 Million km distance of datatransmission). Reproducing these archival records distributed by the NASA as paintings, opens new perspectives towards intellectual property, identity, science and narrativity. Its a challenge of perceiption and abstraction, referenceing Robert Smithsons research of (mythical) landscape, of fiction and industrial / archival spaces used during the 60 !s in fotography as well as the topic "landscape" used in painting for almost two centuries.

Edition of Pigment Prints on Hanenuehlen Pearl _ each 63 x 112 cm _ Ed 1/1_ 20 MotivesLayout © Klaus Hu 2010 & VG Bild-Kunst BonnCourtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech