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Explosive Works by German Artist Martin Denker at Bruce Silverstein

NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein is showing AbsoluteZero, the first New York solo show of the explosive works by 33-year-old German artist Martin Denker. Featuring nine large-scale pieces, interwoven and abstracted through the layering and morphing of manifold visual sources, “AbsoluteZero” expands the definition of the capabilities and expectations of photography. Denker’s works uniquely teeter between Surrealism, Pop, psychedelia and science fiction; his mind-blasting photo-based montages draw the beholder into a system seemingly of fantasy but in fact steeped in reality. Rather a creator than an accumulator, Denker uses image-processing/altering applications to compose and orchestrate scores of photographic layers