Market Square Eater
Alvin Greis
Photography - 120 x 180 x 7 cm Photography - 47.2 x 70.9 x 2.8 inch
$16,497
Scratched Reality No.7,
2025
Alvin Greis
Photography : archival pigment print
150 x 100 x 5 cm 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$8,775
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Numbered and limited to 3 copies
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150 x 100 x 5 cm 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Finland
This series challenges conventional "beautiful" abstraction—soft and fluid—by restoring reality's physicality, tension, and sharpness. Here, forms cut sharply into perception rather than drifting gently.
The works explore how rhythm shapes perception, transforming fluidity into tension and structure. Fluid camera movements become sharp, fragmented gestures, creating a rhythmic intensity reminiscent of slow, heavy drumming.
Light scratches the surface like a craftsman's tool, giving the images a gritty, industrial edge. Form does not blur—it ignites. Repetition forms a visceral rhythm, turning each camera movement into a physical gesture. The result is an intense abstraction that sharpens perception.
This image is part of the 39-print Scratching Reality series.
Each work is carefully printed under the artist's direct supervision and crafted to meet the highest archival standards. The face-mounting method is selected for its exceptional visual clarity, depth, and durability — making it ideal for exhibition and long-term display. Each print is issued with a signed certificate of authenticity, delivered separately.
Technical Details:
• Limited edition (+2 AP)
• High-resolution fine art print (300 dpi), collectible quality
• Face-mounted under museum-grade, anti-glare acrylic (Silisec® Truelife®) with 99% UV protection
• Backed with Dibond® and a professional hanging rail system (floating effect)
Limited immediate availability. Production and dispatch time: 2–4 weeks.
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Professional art gallery • Finland
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Presentation
My artistic approach emerges from a conscious departure from the conventions of photography—freed from the constraints of representation, yet deeply rooted in the lineage of visual experimentation. I draw inspiration from the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism—Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning—whose visceral compositions and emotional intensity inform my visual language. Echoes of Dada and Cubism, along with Clement Greenberg's critical insights, further shape my trajectory.
In the photographic domain, I resonate with visionaries like Man Ray, Saul Leiter, and Ernst Haas, as well as the raw, expressive ambiguity of the Japanese are-bure-boke aesthetic. Their work fuels my exploration of the medium not as a vehicle for documentation, but as a field for painterly gestures, where chance and intention intertwine.
Method and Concept
My work revolves around the concept of metaphotography—a term I use to describe the image not as a snapshot, but as a trace of motion, time, and presence. Through intentional camera movement (ICM), abstraction, and disruption of traditional scale and perspective, I create works that resist fixed interpretation.
These images are not “taken” but performed. The movement of the camera becomes a visible gesture, imprinting itself on the sensor like a brushstroke on canvas. While painters work with chosen pigments, my palette is constrained by the fleeting conditions of light and form in a given moment—each frame is both a discovery and a negotiation.
Unlike digital simulations, metaphotography relies on physical gestures—a direct interaction between body, light, and time. Artificial intelligence can mimic visual effects, but it cannot replicate the authenticity of physical movement. AI calculates; human gestures resist calculation, embodying tension, conflict, refusal. This tension births genuine expression, making metaphotography uniquely human and irreproducible.
This is not an escape from reality but a deeper entanglement with it. My images explore the blurred threshold between perception and sensation, between the external world and its inner resonance. I see photography not as a means of capturing the visible, but of invoking the unseen—evoking memory, emotion, and presence through abstraction.
Material Presence
Scale plays an essential role in this encounter. My prints are produced in large format, not as a matter of spectacle, but to shift the viewer's relationship with the image—from observation to immersion. At a distance, one sees rhythm and gesture. Up close, fragments of the everyday—concrete, glass, weather, shadow—emerge from abstraction.
The image becomes a space to enter, rather than an object to observe. I print my works with high-resolution precision, preserving the integrity of the gesture, the grain of movement, and the fragility of detail. Each photograph exists as both a visual field and a physical presence—intimate and monumental, immediate yet layered.
Origin
Born in Leningrad in 1977, I now live and work in Finland. My background spans classical painting, branding, and visual communication.
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