“Neither an escape from civilisation, nor the desire for a meditative hermitage, nor the craving for extreme physical and psychological experiences draws him to the mountains, although his stays – each lasting several weeks – under gruelling conditions do bear traces of all these things. But he is not the ‘wanderer above the sea of mist’ who transforms his experience of nature into speculations about existential questions of being. It is the search for suitable raw material for his art, for powerful visual impressions, that drives Konrad Henker back to the mountains time and again.”
» … The aesthetic of restraint goes hand in hand with the rediscovery of deliberation: Konrad Henker has all the time in the world to experiment with his mountain motifs and rock formations, without a care for fame. He experiments with compositional approaches, setting light and snow against mountain ridges, and rendering the sky a raven-black backdrop that evokes the nearby cosmos. Strongly vertical formats are used to convey extreme height, whilst wide-angle shots capture endless expanses. The mountain motif conveys a feeling that Henker has nailed to a sign above his desk: freedom. The motif is far from having been exhausted … “
