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Gunther Klosinski's doubleprints illustrate the expressive potential of photomontage, particularly through the "fusion" of two images. This crossing or blending technique reveals the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous and contradictory, transcending and deepening the foreground while alienating the familiar. A single image can convey multiple layers of meaning. For Klosinski, a psychotherapist and psychiatrist, these doubleprints serve as a captivating medium at the intersection of dream and reality, art and psychiatry. These interfaces represent points of transition, depicted in the images, which explore shifts from foreground to background, space to anti-space, and the real to the unreal. They navigate the realms of reality and dream, the here-and-now and the beyond, as well as life and death.