CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/2/2019

Art and art-lover merge in 'Coincidences at Museums'

Featured image, of a silver-haired museumgoer standing before Frederic Edwin Church's 1867 “Niagara Falls, from the American Side” at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, is reproduced from Coincidences at Museums, Stefan Draschan’s compact new collection of universally immediate visual puns created by art-lovers lost in reverie near works which they unconsciously resemble. Whether it’s a woman’s spiky, multi-colored mohawk fanning out before a giant, day-glo Warhol at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, a woman with bright red hair, yellow shirt and primary-colored tote bag blending into an explosively colorful Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou, or a woman whose patterned headscarf almost perfectly matches a textile hung in front of her at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Draschan’s snapshots are as vibrant as they are witty.