
True to scale, hung on a 150 cm center line · person 175 cm · sofa 210 cm
- Year
- 2020
- Technique
- Hybrid on canvas and wood
- Format
- 80 × 60 cm
- Category
- Photography & Mixed Media
Colorful Parc
3,870.00 € incl. VAT
At the heart of the work is passing by as a state of being.
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Visual Description
“Colorful Parc” shows an urban scene in horizontal motion. Two shadowy figures—one on foot, one on a bicycle—glide through the picture space. Their contours are soft, almost dematerialized, as if dissolving in the moment of passing.
The background consists of layered horizontal bands of color: cool blues and grays alternate with warm rosé and sand tones. The lines run in parallel, like visual traces of sound or layers of time. Architecture and surroundings are only suggested, reduced to a rhythmic structure.
Artistic Interpretation
At the heart of the work is passing by as a state of being. The figures meet in the same space, but without any visible interaction. Closeness is physical, not emotional. The blur becomes an expression of modern urban life—a life in flux in which encounters remain fragmentary.
Here Olli Boehm condenses an everyday moment into an atmospheric metaphor. Movement is not about a destination but a constant transition. The title “Colorful Parc” refers to a public place that also becomes a projection screen for inner states: distance, simultaneity, fleeting presence.
Art-Historical Context
Formally, the work moves between contemporary street photography, abstract color-field aesthetics and experimental motion photography. The horizontal stripe structure recalls painterly compositions in which time becomes visible as a pictorial dimension.
The dissolving figures connect to modern photographic approaches in which movement is not frozen but deliberately blurred. The picture space becomes a visual score—an interplay of rhythm, tempo and silence.
Exclusivity
Characteristic of Olli Boehm is the transformation of real scenes into poetic pictorial spaces. Documentation recedes in favor of emotional condensation. The deliberate reduction of detail creates openness—viewers are invited to inscribe their own memories and experiences into the scene.
“Colorful Parc” lives from this controlled blur. The artist’s signature shows in the balance between the photographic basis and painterly layering.
Collector Value
This work is especially suited to collectors and spaces concerned with urban life, movement and contemporary perception. The horizontal composition creates calm despite its dynamism.
In private and institutional settings alike, “Colorful Parc” acts as a quiet resonant space—a picture about the in-between, about encounters in passing.
More About the Artist
Olli Boehm combines digital photography with mixed-media interventions to create layered pictorial spaces in which reality, memory and atmosphere interlock. His works condense urban and human situations into visual metaphors—between blur, texture and precise composition.
Condition Report
Condition: no visible defects. A detailed condition report is available on request.








