Walter PfeifferDas Auge, die Gedanken, unentwegt wandernd

‘The faces of Walter Pfeiffer are naive. Lascivious, innocent, brutal, longing and greedy and shy. The faces are wistful, foreboding and meaningful. The faces fixate and captivate the viewer wherever he stands, for in them live the eyes of adolescence, which possess the irresistible power of pure seduction. Walter Pfeiffer's photographs tell the story with the instinct of the moment. The essence of the erotic can hardly be presented in a more direct, simple and at the same time incorporeal-visual way as a movement that constantly pushes forward from the depths and penetrates everything. The subject of the face is not an entertaining preoccupation for this artist. The photographs shown here are the result of a large-scale endeavour spanning several years. The photos of young men, taken between 1980 and 1986, appeal to the viewer with all their youthful characteristics, from facial expressions to haircuts.’ Patrick Frey, from the epilogue to The Eye, the Thoughts ...