{"id":24093,"date":"2025-07-30T00:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=24093"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:03:36","slug":"leo-bacharach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2025\/07\/30\/leo-bacharach\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Bacharach"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24093\" class=\"elementor elementor-24093\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ddb78ce e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ddb78ce\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4ba446 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a4ba446\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Year of birth: 1983<br \/>Where do you live: Dresden, Germany<br \/>Describe your art in three words: Timeless, archetypal, independent<br \/>Your discipline: To go deep, listening only to my inner voice, using every gift given to me by God<br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/leobacharach\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ea2c07 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5ea2c07\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a506c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9a506c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24079 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2-689x1024.jpg 689w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2-768x1141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2-1034x1536.jpg 1034w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-My-portrait2-600x891.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your background bridges music, physics, photography, and fine art. How do these disciplines influence your current artistic practice?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Absolutely everything I can absorb into my mind\u2014from the fields you mentioned, or any others\u2014affects my art. My consciousness is a black box. Information enters it, and art emerges as the output\u2014my subconscious\u2019s way of processing all those impressions and data. I cannot know exactly how everything influences my work, but the fact that it all has an impact is beyond doubt. Music plays a huge role in my life, especially rock music and 20th-century classical music (Schoenberg, Cage, Berio, etc.). Their conceptual clarity and precision in musical expression certainly influence the conceptual nature of my photographic work.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What inspired you to represent human life through symbolic head sculptures?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trigger for this series was the war in Ukraine. I myself was born in Ukraine, and many people around me have been affected by this theme. I especially want to mention the film Let\u2019s Leave it for Better Times by Dirk Gro\u00dfer. Even though he is German, he traveled to Ukraine multiple times to interview contemporary artists and explore how the war influences art. I thought something like, \u201cI\u2019m Ukrainian, and also an artist. I need to do something or say something about this!\u201d That\u2019s how the idea arose\u2014to portray the horror and senselessness of war. Initially, I explored ways to depict the death of an abstract soldier, which led to the sculpture that became the \u201cDeath\u201d phase. Later came the idea to generalize and create a series of different phases of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24082 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Death-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Death-2024.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Death-2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Death-2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Death-2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Leo Bacharach | Death | 2024<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you tell us about the materials and techniques you use in your works?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started with classical black-and-white film photography, then switched to digital. But even now, I occasionally return to analog methods. For example, this year I learned how to do cyanotypes. And right now, there\u2019s a box on my desk I\u2019m about to turn into a pinhole camera. Regarding the photographs of abstract heads specifically\u2014they\u2019re mostly digital photographs captured using a handmade semi-transparent intermediate screen, which creates an additional effect: the images move away from realism and begin to resemble paintings. The base of each sculpture is ultimately a foam head bought from a store, which I modified in various ways. The most fascinating part was creating the \u201cDeath\u201d phase out of charcoal for grilling. The mold I used to shape that charcoal sculpture\u2014from fabric soaked in acrylic varnish\u2014became the foundation for another phase that precedes death, called \u201cBroken\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24081 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Broken-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Broken-2024.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Broken-2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Broken-2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Broken-2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Leo Bacharach | Broken | 2024<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The series seems to follow a chronological path \u2014 from soul to death. Is there a narrative or philosophical concept guiding this progression?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as I dislike being preached to, I also avoid preaching. I believe art should be as self-evident as possible\u2014so that the meaning of a piece can be understood without lectures about \u201cwhat the author meant.\u201d That\u2019s why my photographs don\u2019t contain ethical, political, or philosophical messages. They\u2019re simply depictions of \u201ctypical life\u201d through archetypal images of its phases. Each person is free to meditate on them, relate them to their own life, and draw (or not draw) conclusions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24080 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Adult-2024-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Leo Bacharach | Adult | 2024<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do any of the stages in your series (e.g.&nbsp;Teenager, Death, Adult) hold personal meaning or are based on autobiographical elements?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No, not really. Though of course, I didn\u2019t just conjure the imagery out of thin air\u2014I saw, absorbed, or experienced many of them. For example, the children\u2019s scale against tiled walls\u2014I remember that from my childhood, when I had to stay in the hospital for a month at around age seven. That photo turned out very eerie. It\u2019s honestly my favorite in the series.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your images have a theatrical, almost ritualistic presence. How important is symbolism in your work?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love symbolic, minimalist, and conceptual art. My favorite artist is Giorgio de Chirico from his metaphysical period. Philosophically, my world includes Freemasonry, Kabbalah, and tarot cards. I wouldn\u2019t want to be pigeonholed, but yes\u2014symbolism and theatrical clarity in artistic expression are extremely important to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Teenager-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Teenager-2024.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Teenager-2024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Teenager-2024-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Leo-Bacharach-Teenager-2024-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Leo Bacharach | Teenager | 2024<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ve worked on a software for artistic tessellations. Does digital technology play a role in your sculpture work as well?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this series of abstract heads, I hardly used digital technology\u2014only to crop the images and make slight adjustments to contrast, brightness, and saturation. The sculptures I photographed were created without any digital tools: just foam templates, glue, varnish, and a variety of additional materials.&nbsp;<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That said, I do have one sculpture that was shaped based on a tessellation pattern generated by my software.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year of birth: 1983Where do you live: Dresden, GermanyDescribe your art in three words: Timeless, archetypal, independentYour discipline: To go deep, listening only to my inner voice, using every gift given to me by GodInstagram Your background bridges music, physics, photography, and fine art. How do these disciplines influence your current artistic practice? 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