Introduction
Enchanted Waters
Juraj Lipscher’s works in the series Enchanted Waters are Impressionist-like images of magically reflected water landscapes full of mottled light and buoyant joy. Lipscher’s photographs reveal a landscape of magic. In the tradition of the Impressionists, he captures nature’s continuous transformations in brief, enigmatic moments. But these images leave nothing to chance – to the contrary, the artist determines the moment in which nature reveals herself as a work of art. A leaf, yellow with autumn and blurred by the water’s rippled surface, looks as if painted in oil and assumes a completely different density. Lipscher experiments with the visual effects the rays of sun create on the surface of the water.
His images gambol with the age-old conflict between appearance and reality. Playing on the theme “A tree is a tree is a tree” Lipscher doubles the perspective, using the water’s surface as a second lens. With the reflection’s help the photographer is able to discover nature’s colors anew. As he describes it, “The forest became a fairytale to me, one that I illustrate with my photos.”
The resulting images are ebulliently beautiful in their indirectness. The photographer creates an imaginary landscape from the real one, which is the source – one in which anything is possible. Lipscher’s works have been exhibited in the Musée de l´Elysée and at the New York Photo Festival, among others.
Bio
| 1948 | Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1950 | Moved to Bratislava (today Slovakia) |
| 1968 | Emigrated to Switzerland and received doctorate from Universität Zürich |
| Since 1968 | intensive autodidactic work with photography |
| Lives and works in Rupperswil, Switzerland |
Grants
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Collections
Zwischen Baden und Zürich: Entlang der Autobahn, Eine Auswahl von 12 Fotografien, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23./24. Januar 1993
Industrie Landschaft, Fotografien und Textteil über die Baustelle des Donaukraftwerks in Gabcíkovo in der Slowakei. PHOTONEWS, Nr. 5, 1994
Spielraum, Eine Auswahl von Fotografien zum Thema "Kindheit", Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 15./16. Oktober 1994
Kinderbilder, Fotografien und Textteil zum Thema "Kindheit", PHOTONEWS, Nr. 10, Oktober 1995
Fleur de Ville, Fotografie aus dem Zyklus über städtische Flora: Schaufenster zürcher Blumengeschäfte, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 9./10. Dezember 1995
Endstation: Kehrichtsverbrennungsanlagen in der Schweiz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28./29. September 1996
Wir Kinder von Cyber–Zoo, 12 Porträts von Kindern mit japanischen Tamagotschi–Tieren. Text von Christian Hubschmid, Neue Zürcher Zeitung 22./23. November 1997
FOTOGRAF, Prag, 4/2004 Volume 3, S. 38-49
FORECAST, Zürich 02/05, S. 40-45
Exhibitions
| 2010 | Exhibition in the course of the FOTOFESTIVAL l’Eté photographique de Lectoure 2010 in Lectoure, France |
| 2009 | Exhibition in the course of the NEW YORK PHOTOFESTIVAL in Brooklyn N.Y., USA |
| 2008 | Einzelausstellung Body Shops, in MUSÉE DE L’ELYSÉE in Lausanne, Schweiz |
| 2005 | Einzelausstellung Genius Loci in the Centre MOULIN de BLANCHARDEU in Lanvollon, Bretagne, Frankreich |
| 2004 | Einzelausstellung in der Galerie FIDUCIA, Ostrava, Tschechische Republik |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 | Exhibition in the course of the FOTOFESTIVAL l’Eté photographique de Lectoure 2010 in Lectoure, France |
| 2009 | Exhibition in the course of the NEW YORK PHOTOFESTIVAL in Brooklyn N.Y., USA |
| 2008 | Single exhibition Body Shops, in MUSÉE DE L’ELYSÉE in Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2005 | Single exhibition Genius Loci in the Centre MOULIN de BLANCHARDEU in Lanvollon, Bretagne, France |
| 2004 | Single exhibition in the Galery FIDUCIA, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
Group Exhibitions
| 2008 | Group exhibition Ein Tag im Leben der Tschechischen Republik, in the Galery MANES Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2007 | Group exhibition Fotogenie der Identität, Das Gedächtnis der Tschechischen Fotografie in Kunstmuseum of the city Brünn, Czech Republic, in the NATIONALEN MUSEUM FÜR FOTOGRAFIE in Jindřichův Hradec, Czech Republic and in the FRANTIŠEK DRTIKOL GALERIE in Příbram, Czech Republic |
| 2007 | Group exhibition Identité: Juraj Lipscher, Virginia Restain, Annet de Voort in the Galery LA FILATURE, Mulhouse, France |
| 2005 | Group exhibition in the Centre BATHYSCAPHE in Pommerit-le-Vicomte, Bretagne, France |
| 2005 | 2 Group exhibitions in the Galery FIDUCIA and in the Galery KOKSOVNA in Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 2004 | Group exhibition in the Galery Michal, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 2004 | Group exhibition in the Galery MLEJN, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 2003 | Group exhibition in the Galery FIDUCIA, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
2003
| Group exhibition in the Galery MICHAL, Ostrava, Czech Republic |
| 2001 | Group exhibition Selection vfg 2000 (Schweizerische Berufsfotografie) in Zurich. This exhibition was performed also in Basel and Chur |
| 2000 | Group exhibition in the Galery PHOTOFORUM PASQUART in Biel. Purchase of the serie Geburtsort through the art commitee of Biel |
