page_title: Hans Danuser
section_title: Frozen Embryo Series
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Danuser / Series and projects / Frozen Embryo Series
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Werkserie von Hans Danuser, Frozen Embryo Series I, 1998–2001, 4 parts (I1–I4), silver gelatine print, 59x55 cm, mounted on 2mm aluminium sheet, photography: Fabrikationshalle 2
context_page_description: Hans Danuser is a Swiss artist and photographer. His first mayor work, the cycle In Vivo, brought him international fame, therein he broke several societal taboos with respect to genetic research and nuclear physics. Since the 1990s, in addition to his photographic studies, Danuser has focused increasingly on transdisciplinary projects in the arts and sciences.
context_section_description: The photographs in the Frozen Embryo Series (1996–2000) have their origins in medical laboratories and gene research. These works find Hans Danuser playing with the opportunities presented by analogue photography: he takes a single negative (which he calls the “original”) and, by turning and mirroring it in the darkroom, generates from it a number of other images, which he calls “one-offs”. To reinforce this impression, Hans Danuser chose the square as format for his images, slightly stretched to 140 cm x 150 cm. The Frozen Embryo Series was first shown at the Kunsthaus Zurich in 1996. Günter Metken writes in the exhibition catalogue: “Without being explicit, Hans Danuser's work addresses the classical problem – and paradox – of painting: the perception of nature and its reproduction, the tension between surface and depth, volume and two-dimensionality, foreground and background, microscopy and totality, vision and the sense of touch. The artist actualises these issues and yet his stream of drifting shapes reminds us of Monet's Water Lilies. Our gaze wanders, roams, follows winding shapes in an ecstasy of sensual expansion and refinement.”
  Frozen-Embryo-Installation (1996)
caption: Hans Danuser, Frozen Embryo Series I, 1998–2001, 4-part (I1–I4), silver gelatine, 59 x 55 cm, photography: Fabrikationshalle 2.
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