Robert Lucander
27 Mar - 21 Apr 2007
© Robert Lucander, "Echt erlebt! (dramatische Schicksale - große Lovestories!)", 2007, acrylic, pencil on wood, 100 x 139.8 cm / 39 3/8 x 55 1/8 "
Robert Lucander
Sugar Shack
27 March - 21 April 2007
Contemporary Fine Arts is showing new works by Robert Lucander
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to announce the solo show Sugar Shack by Robert Lucander.
For his visual inventions, Robert Lucander draws from his collections of media images from records, magazines, and films. For his latest works he used mainly motifs from sports and fashion magazines, but also old wizardry books and works of classic modernism by, say, Max Ernst or Edvard Munch.
Just like a magician who saws through his assistant in a box and then puts the pieces together wrongly, Robert Lucander creates figures in his new paintings that could hardly be any more implausible. The beholder is confronted with monstrous creatures. Right from the start, Lucander, who started out as an abstract painter, has had a tendency towards the symbolic. Visual composition for him works as a sculptural process: through constructive measures, fragments are combined into an object. This is one of the reasons why the artist paints on wood. The character of the picture changes because the wood in its materiality plays an active role. Lucander is fascinated by the surface of his model from the print media, but at the same time he always looks for what is behind it. The natural wood undermines the artificially perfect glossy surfaces. The picture becomes more “real.”
In the age of computer programmes like Photoshop and FreeHand, the manual construction of Lucander’s latest paintings may seem old-fashioned, but precisely in this they are an expression of a phenomenon of our reality that Jean Baudrillard diagnosed as early as 1976: „the collapse of reality into hyperrealism, the meticulous reduplication of the real ... no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denegation and its own ritual extermination: the hyperreral.“
© Robert Lucander, "Echt erlebt! (dramatische Schicksale - große Lovestories!)", 2007, acrylic, pencil on wood, 100 x 139.8 cm / 39 3/8 x 55 1/8 "
Sugar Shack
27 March - 21 April 2007
Contemporary Fine Arts is showing new works by Robert Lucander
Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to announce the solo show Sugar Shack by Robert Lucander.
For his visual inventions, Robert Lucander draws from his collections of media images from records, magazines, and films. For his latest works he used mainly motifs from sports and fashion magazines, but also old wizardry books and works of classic modernism by, say, Max Ernst or Edvard Munch.
Just like a magician who saws through his assistant in a box and then puts the pieces together wrongly, Robert Lucander creates figures in his new paintings that could hardly be any more implausible. The beholder is confronted with monstrous creatures. Right from the start, Lucander, who started out as an abstract painter, has had a tendency towards the symbolic. Visual composition for him works as a sculptural process: through constructive measures, fragments are combined into an object. This is one of the reasons why the artist paints on wood. The character of the picture changes because the wood in its materiality plays an active role. Lucander is fascinated by the surface of his model from the print media, but at the same time he always looks for what is behind it. The natural wood undermines the artificially perfect glossy surfaces. The picture becomes more “real.”
In the age of computer programmes like Photoshop and FreeHand, the manual construction of Lucander’s latest paintings may seem old-fashioned, but precisely in this they are an expression of a phenomenon of our reality that Jean Baudrillard diagnosed as early as 1976: „the collapse of reality into hyperrealism, the meticulous reduplication of the real ... no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denegation and its own ritual extermination: the hyperreral.“
© Robert Lucander, "Echt erlebt! (dramatische Schicksale - große Lovestories!)", 2007, acrylic, pencil on wood, 100 x 139.8 cm / 39 3/8 x 55 1/8 "