Frank Rödel says of his pictures, “Landscape is ambivalent. It is chaos and structure at the same time. It is the co-incidence of opposed elements: beauty as well as violence and an indifferent, cold and terrible lack of empathy.”
The view of the landscape from an aeroplane window might remind us of highly polished stones or microbes under a microscope or the arteries of a river delta, the flower patterns of frost on a window pane, rarely seen in our urban world. These are moments where the large and the small in our natural environment, the macro and microcosm, become transparent, and pictures of becoming and passing provoke in us more than purely scientific interest. The Berlin artist Frank Rödel has been on the hunt for such interferences and interpenetrations since the 1980s, when he made painting and also art photography to understand his experience of the world.”
–From “Portrait of the Earth,” Bilder und Zeiten, No. 30, Feb 2023
You can view more of Franks work at https://www.frank-roedel.de/en/