During the year 2010 I have concentrated my artistic work New works/ nouvelles créations/ neue arbeiten 2010 On collages and fusions between photography and text. They can be seen as a kind of a synthesis between my former profession as a journalist and the latter as a visual artist (since 1990).

With this series, ever evolving, I pay tribute to the work of great architects and beautiful architectures by combining parts of these monuments with plants and/or flowers. In doing this, I want to establish a communication between the anorganic and the organic in order to get to a coalition of images that might lead to creative and modified perceptions and transcendental « meaning ».

(RE-)CONSTRUCTING BERLIN Since the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990, Berlin has been searching for its place as the new capital of a rediscovered nation. In their efforts to present Berlin as a political and cultural European metropolis comparable to cities such as London or Paris, national and local authorities have undertaken a vast and ambitious program of construction and reconstruction. This has had some rather dramatic financial consequences.

Squares, crossroads: meeting places, places to discuss or exchange opinions. A kaleidoscope of perceptions, impressions, and knowledge accumulated while travelling through a city. But our vision is often guided by the single representation of place and memory, as we find our bearings in the course of our daily lives.

In the Venice series, Hans J. Mettler focuses on the harmonious, yet ironic relationship between human and natural creations. The latter seem to have entrenched themselves in the splendid domes (even as they are being restored) or the majestic palaces of Venice, one of the most spectacular cities in the world.

Architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain American architect Frank Gehry has created quite a stir with the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, with its extravagant design, the overcoming of an extraordinary technical challenge and the building\'s happy integration into the urban context of the Basque capital. The magnitude of this daring building cannot help but have an influence on our perceptions of reality and an effect on the power of our imagination.

\"Queens Square\" includes a series of six digital collages that were done over the course of several visits to P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, Long Island City, New York, in March 2000. The Center is located in an old public school and is now known as P.S. 1. In cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art, P.S.1. had organized an important multi-media exhibition within the school=s old brick walls and had caught the attention of the international art scene.

Two photo-images, showing ordinary even banal pictures... Yet, the dichotomy comes through:†they are twinned by side or on opposite sides, getting to a new artistic language within a special aesthetic frame. A \"simulated\" reality is created through merging and various other processes, combining artificial and virtual manipulation.

The \"Think Different\" series exposes the \"new economy\", real or virtual, with its increasing impact not only on our everyday life but also on our collective consciousness. Virtual spaces have created a language of their own, reflecting a frantic globalization of all things American and specific codes generated by the new markets.

Two photo-images, showing ordinary even banal pictures... Yet, the dichotomy comes through:†they are twinned by side or on opposite sides, getting to a new artistic language within a special aesthetic frame. A \"simulated\" reality is created through merging and various other processes, combining artificial and virtual manipulation.