The protagonists of Armin Scheids beach and pool scenes seem to live in an exaggerated cosmos of radiant light, oversaturated colours, glowing shadows and reflections.
They are fueled by a powerful and energetic elegance that at the same time seems to be relaxed, east of an fight and flight mode and almost introverted or even melancholic.
As much as these surfers, bathers and beach walkers seem to celebrate their bodies and their passions, they also remind us of our vulnerability: To take constant control of nature ultimately remains an illusion and even more than this, the sunny idyll could also be understood as a step into a contaminated world!
This irritation is supported by a playful and rhythmical fragmentation of the motifs – penetrated and shattered by a light that outshines everything.
Scheids models – sometimes friends of the artist, sometimes passers-by at the beach seem to switch seductively between the longing to dissolve in nature and light and the need to revolve as a subject. |
