Photography, between dreams and reality

Photographs that enchant, featuring landscapes of rare beauty enriched with architectures on a variable scale. But on closer inspection Gustav Willeit’s photography for PERSPE reveals the source of the mysterious fascination emanated by the images, for the places he portrays are real but duplicated, carefully prepared to create a time-delayed effect of alienation.
The architecture shown in the photos, from famous places such as Venice or Dubai, from the Ligurian coastline to barns in mountain pastures, is portrayed as an object, often underlined by the strategic presence of the human figure. Buildings as objects, represented by photography to call up emotions, seeking the subtle boundary between reality and artefact, projecting the observer into a parallel universe recalling Borges’ “illusory ” encyclopaedia . 
As its title suggests, Gustav Willeit’s “Perspe” sounds out various different implications of the concept of perspective, creating a particular sense of depth both at the end and in the image, going beyond mere representation to enter the spectator’s own personal mystic sphere.
 
Christiane Bürklein (@chrisbuerklein)
 
Gustav Willeit, http://www.guworld.com