Eye Candy

Sex sells. Everything obvious is and has already been shown in excess. In a directness and an exposure, which torment the human eye more, than that it really succeeds to meet the fine, the surprising and the mysterious sensually. But surely this is the real game of eroticism? The subtle beauty and truth of nature nature shows it. Thus the Personality of the flower of the wicked in the book project through the through the photographic view of the artist, as well as the sweet as the sweet plant of innocence in all its vulnerability and tenderness. Their whole fascinating range, between pride and fragility, becomes visible. In the planned book, Hildegard Theodora Monssen gives her her unique insight into a hidden world. "The collection of the Museum van Bommeln van Dam in Venlo include four photographic works by the German artist Hildegard Theodora Monssen (born 1948 in Vorst). These works were created exclusively with natural natural light. (...) Inspired and enthused by the new perspectives and inspired by the new angles of vision, the light photographer finally created a remarkable full-color series in 2012. She captures her motifs in extreme close-ups and sensitively combines and sensitively combines wilting flowers with the corresponding lighting with the corresponding lighting mood. The expressive, yet mysterious, colorful flower worlds are transformed into magical flower landscapes. Here the microcosm becomes in a subtle way to the macrocosm. In her work Hildegard Theodora Monßen shows with the beauty of transience and temporality in a philosophical of transience and temporality in the philosophical sense. sense. Decay and death are paired with an in many respects astounding aesthetics in many ways." - Rick Vercauteren, Directeur van Bommel van Dam (until 2004 to 2016)