Scenarios | 2013
Still life is one of the oldest genres in art: objects deliberately arranged into a composition, a subject painters have returned to for centuries.
Riccardo Wolfgang approaches it from the opposite direction. Rather than staging his subjects, he finds these arrangements already present in the world—ephemeral, decontextualised, and most often made for some other purpose entirely. In gathering rather than constructing them, he arrives at a contemporary and broader reading of the still life, one that locates the genre not in the studio but in the texture of everyday life.
Scenarios is a photographic series depicting scenes and situations that hover between the familiar and the imagined.
Each scenario captures a moment that feels both constructed and observed, balancing spontaneity with contemplation. It reminds us that the still life was never confined to the studio—it has always been there, waiting, in the ordinary arrangements of daily life.
