Sunday March 8th: Robert Voit

"In New Trees, Robert Voit employs delicate irony to demonstrate that the background noise of verbal communication, so to speak, has long since reached the visual domain.

His pictorial inventory, a work-in-progress since 2003, of mobile phone masts in the guise of artificial trees erected in real space in the U.S., Great Britain, South Africa, Korea, Italy and Portugal pays superficial tribute to a diffuse creative will driven by a basic desire for conciliation....

Robert Voit, who studied at the academies in Munich and Dusseldorf, satirizes the strict typological corset which has become the trademark of the so-called Becher School of photography. Classified thus as unique objects, formally these fake trees take on an absurd dynamism which creates a need for natural artificiality. In New Trees, the tree, a traditional carrier of meaning, mutates into a grotesque foil for longing."

-Christoph Schaden (the accompanying text from Voit's website)

Robert Voit, German born (1969) lives and works as a in Munich. He received a degree from the Art Academy in Munich (2001) & also from the Art Academy at Düsseldorf (2005). Both appear to be 4 year degrees. He has received over 7 grants since 1999, as well as the same number of solo exhibitions. He has been published numerous times, mainly his "New Trees" series, pictured above.
His typology feels honest and therefore extremely successful. I think Schaden has reiterated was I was thinking when viewing Voit's work, and while I won't be using humor in my series, I hope it can hold up beside the images of Voit because I have alot of respect for his work.
artists website: http://www.robertvoit.com