PHOTOGRAPHY
RONALD STOECKER
 
DETAILS
photographical Image, Pigment Print , Archive Paper, Edition 15
70 x 50 cm
2024
 
DESCRIPTION
For my series “foul weather statistics,” I use images that were produced through an experimental approach in which my own original photographic dataset was deliberately destroyed and partially restored with specialized software systems. In this way, I obtained ruins of photographs that were once standard. Yet these derivatives represent their own originality, with a often coarse aesthetic and a pictorial context that has fully detached from the original meaning.
Foul Weather Statistics is a dreamlike, speculative series about what the aforementioned process may have yielded for me. Part of my experimental practice also involves recognizing unconventional textual contexts. In general, I let my thoughts drift, let them run freely, and collect words that are “induced” by the visual impression of what lies before me. Sunset in the last systems, Tsunami Number 5, and Warm Front Weather Grid tell, for me, stories of a strangely ordered geometric arrangement in which reality is not the primary driver of the visual impression; instead, fantasy, as well as technological signals and codes, have come to the fore.
 
BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST
Ronald Stoecker (b. 1954, Essen, Germany) is a contemporary artist working with digital and analogue photography, scanning techniques, print processes, and mixed media. Originally trained as a biologist and chemist, he turned his focus to art and studied Photography and Media Art at the Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste Essen (HBK), graduating as a master student in 2021.
 
His work explores abstraction and experimental image-making, transforming visual reality through innovative photographic and generative processes. By moving beyond conventional aesthetics, Stoecker creates works that invite viewers into unfamiliar and imaginative realms. His internationally exhibited practice has received recognition through numerous exhibitions, awards, and publications across Europe and the United States.