Klemm's

The nucleus of Matt Lipps’s artistic practice revolves around the critical scrutinizing of graphic material that is commonly received in our society and to which he develops different approaches. Lipps works with sculptural tropes, does collages and uses techniques of mise-en-scène theater. In his latest work he probes still-life photography creating its spatial arrangements similar to a theater stage by employing layers of ‘acting’ figures and objects. In a sculptor-like manner he then sets the intuitively composed windows in relation to an undefined digital space that seems not to provide any grounding to the objects. These ensembles articulate an open call to the observer to continue thinking the picture and to animate it on one’s own authority. Thus, a dynamic develops that appeals to that particular contemporary image competence that operates on a daily basis with the levels of digital organization, that is confronted continuously with out-of-context graphic material, and that knows how to organize and orchestrate the very same.