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New Work by German Artist Florian Maier-Aichen on View at 303 Gallery in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery presents their third exhibition of new work by Florian Maier-Aichen. With the works in this exhibition, Maier-Aichen continues his practice of picking apart and expanding notions of photographic representation. Many works in the show rely on a fully hybrid model of image production; utilizing practices of photography, painting and drawing in equal measures has allowed the artist to explore the myth of image-making in pursuit of a new form of the ideal photographic document. “Aus Ven [From Hven] ,” an image of the island of Hven in the Öresund sound, filters the explicit tropes of typical landscape imagery (clear skies, fertile fields, blue ocean) through the perspective of hard-edged abstraction. In “La Brea Avenue in the Snow,” Maier-Aichen uses historical photography as reference material to create a fairytale scene of a snowy day in Los Angeles. A paean to timelessness, it is also an investigat