Michael Papendieck is a virtuoso in dealing with people and in conducting the human form. His works have a visual force that get their energy from the physiques of the portrayed. Guided by spatial implications and influenced by his own expierence as active dancer, the pictures are never ornaments, they convince by clean static, alternating with significant momentum. The interplay of light and individual body is the largest source of inspiration. And despite all the abstraction he remains on the people themselves, what is always obvious by the proximity of the portraits.