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Born in Stuttgart in 1954, the German artist Tilmann Krieg is a photographic painter. The pictures appear blurred, as if intentionally taken out of focus and overlapping with other pictures. Thus these fleeting elements achieve a different meaning in terms of their representation and topicality than the elements of classical photography. The artist aims at something else that goes beyond mere appearance and confidence in a superficial representation. The more the figures merge into the flow of time and transience, the more the images become paintings, far more than photographic images, and convey both a poetic dimension and a dense, lyrical atmosphere. This is particularly evident in the dynamic images of the Metro series, which the artist treats as one of his main themes. The urban environment becomes an iconographic synonym for the everyday life and identity of the modern individual. Modern people are constantly on the move, always on the way somewhere. This contemporary type appears in these paintings as anonymous figures whose identity disappears in the rhythm of their busy everyday life. The gaze seems to follow the vanishing figures, which are interwoven in light and shadow. Involuntarily one thinks of an urban womb that offers protection to these anonymous beings. In this sense, these photographic images symbolize the fleeting character of all existence: beings in motion, apparitions in the flow of time, figures that melt into shadows and finally disappear into nothingness