Pieter Laurens Mol

Pieter Laurens Mol's (1946, the Netherlands) photographic aim is not the representation of visible reality, but focuses on the visualization of ideas. Playing in a relative way with emotionally grounded interests, PLM investigates the semantic conditions of the pictorial world. With a slight glimmer in the eyes, PLM enters a field of tension where performance, staging and the drama of the great feeling meet. While exploring the dividing lines between the artistic and the everyday object, he knows - how the museums, galleries and art criticism determine their aesthetic position - in the game. The classical contrast between an inward-looking romantic view and a conceptual rationality runs like a common thread through all his works.