Lutz Braun
12 Nov - 21 Dec 2013
LUTZ BRAUN
Memento Mio
12 November - 21 December 2013
Lutz Braun‘s works are direct, poetic, weird and dreamy in an almost old fashioned way. All materials that are suitable as an image carrier recount something like in a dream. They are at hand in the artist‘s everyday life and they mingle with his imagination. As a result they become more than simple image carriers: they penetrate the paintings and sketches, which occur on them; they diffuse with them to form a “different world” .
Carpets, diapers, old blankets and wooden planks, items that can be described as products of waste of civilization tell of a world beyond its boundaries defined by consumption and information. Nothing is thrown away and this would be pointless, because the banished and discarded always return as shadows. The alternative world of Lutz Braun is not an idyll. His paintings show figures and characters from the shadowy realm of the vanishing, screaming, vulnerable and those who hunt them.
The central piece of the exhibition is a large cast-off carpet with oriental patterns. Some of these are taken up or transformed in color, beings and symbols of Braun‘s repertoire added. Two disparate symbolic levels, on the one hand the artist Lutz Braun and on the other hand the craftsmen who have been making these patterns for thousands of years, thus conveying cultural meanings, meet each other in a duel without weapons.
Memento Mio
12 November - 21 December 2013
Lutz Braun‘s works are direct, poetic, weird and dreamy in an almost old fashioned way. All materials that are suitable as an image carrier recount something like in a dream. They are at hand in the artist‘s everyday life and they mingle with his imagination. As a result they become more than simple image carriers: they penetrate the paintings and sketches, which occur on them; they diffuse with them to form a “different world” .
Carpets, diapers, old blankets and wooden planks, items that can be described as products of waste of civilization tell of a world beyond its boundaries defined by consumption and information. Nothing is thrown away and this would be pointless, because the banished and discarded always return as shadows. The alternative world of Lutz Braun is not an idyll. His paintings show figures and characters from the shadowy realm of the vanishing, screaming, vulnerable and those who hunt them.
The central piece of the exhibition is a large cast-off carpet with oriental patterns. Some of these are taken up or transformed in color, beings and symbols of Braun‘s repertoire added. Two disparate symbolic levels, on the one hand the artist Lutz Braun and on the other hand the craftsmen who have been making these patterns for thousands of years, thus conveying cultural meanings, meet each other in a duel without weapons.