The momentary creation of space within pictures

»Hubert Becker's pictures leave the feeling of reliability in the observer« writes Heinrich Miess about his works*, but none of Hubert Becker's photographed motives show what they pretend to be: What looks like a drawing of shoes is actually a real pair of shoes, painted white and drawn over. The studio scene from Gerhard Richter is a built model after his own photograph, the Blossfeld only modelling clay.

Becker plays with our mistaken assumption that in times of mechanical reproduction, a depiction of a piece of art is showing as such. Thereby he wo...

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