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in 1946 and studied psychology, art and film. Ulrich Hensel did a number of different series of works (e.g. Middle East and North Africa, 1967-1975, India, 1981-1990, local deities in North and in South India, 1995-1997) but since 1991 he has been focusing on images of construction sites.
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Hensel's works have the feeling of extended three-dimensional object modelling in a kind of crossover between photography, painting, object, and installation art, imperfection caught as if by chance in a perfect
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of the objects shown" – and inevitably create associations with the geometric abstract art of
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Ulrich Hensel, Düsseldorf, Färberstraße, II, C-Print-Diasec, 254,5 x 180 cm, 2007
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Ulrich Hensel, Düsseldorf, Hans-Vilz-Wg II, C-Print Diasec, 160 cm x 289 cm, 2004
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Ulrich Hensel, Düsseldorf Breite Straße II, C-Print Diasec, 239,7 x 200 cm, 2003
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Ulrich Hensel, Am Mühlenturm, C-Print Diasec, 200 cm x 275,8 cm, 2008
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