While walking around the new buildings at the Kansas City Nelson-Atkin’s Museum of Art, I stumbled upon a large photograph of trees and plants out in the middle of nowhere.  It really wasn’t too impressive until I read the information panel and realized it was all a big photoshop.

So of course I did some internet research and this is what I found:

“Beate Gutschow explores the opposing juxtapositions of pastoral idealism and urban decay in her new volume of images…which upon first glance could be mistaken as real, [but] are in fact meticulously staged montages that have been digitally mastered by the German artist. ”

“Each work is a composition created from the layering of between 30 to 100 pieces, taken from her extensive catalogue and arranged into a panorama.”

It’s some pretty interesting stuff, especially when you look close and see how some of the proportions don’t make sense and some strange shadows that shouldn’t exist.  Definitely go check out some more of her stuff.

- jack