floor consists of a line-up of minimalistic photography which concentrates on different types of pavements, reducing them to the bare essential. Every-day urban places such as streets, squares, pedestrian walkways, pavements, train stations or airports can be seen in this new series of images which comes alive as they are reduced to graphic fragments of surfaces in our perception of horizontal lines. Pavements, for example, are illustrated in an abstract form and re-inserted in a new context so that we appreciate them in a fresh light through their becoming part of one single union. In this way, the usual accepted urban order which we all know is interpreted and presented in a different way. The aspect of major importance is, therefore, the fact that our concept of various essential elements changes or is modified from the usual, realistic, every-day idea of beauty which is always present but which we are not even conscious of. Stefan Tschurtschenthaler was born in Cermes (Italy) in 1961. He lives and works in Merano.