Jeff Wall

In his impressive analysis Stefan Banz examines
how Jeff Wall uses camera, computer, actors
and specialists to generate a visual performance
that provokes epistemological questions in
the viewer; illustrates how the artist - beyond
avant-garde criteria - develops a sophisticated
and engaging visual feel, which deals both with
the everyday but also with the history of art; and
explores meticulously how he reflects the role of
the recipient in his compositions. In this sense,
Banz shows with the eyes of an active observer
how art has an inexhaustible metaphorical
power for Wall, which enriches and upsets
our visual concepts. And he also creates new,
startling references between his photographic
works and paintings by such different artists like
Diego Velázquez, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet,
Frederic Remington, Hans Emmenegger, Marcel
Duchamp and Salvador Dalí.