I'll be showing my digital projection Sarajevo/Love Virus (2009)nurtart - fängt Licht! curated by Irmgard Berner. The show, which opens 17 September, hightlichts artists who have been presented in the portal nurart.org. I was featured in 2008.

Two smaller new works from the Cuts series:


untitled, 1996/2001/2010, archival digital print on matte paper, dyptich each 25 x 30 cm


untitled, 1996/2010 archival digital print on matte paper, 37 x 60 cm

New works from the Cuts series


untitled (westway) 2009/2010 archival digital print on matte paper 40 x 53 cm


untitled (Torreon) 2004/2010, archival digital print on matte paper 20 x 33 cm


julia, 2010 archival digital print on matte paper 30 x 51 cm

video stills from Junctures I


My residency at the Frankfurter Kunstverein is coming to an end. I have been working on a project, Junctures 1: Frankfurt, which combines video interviews and mapping technology to examine migration, information technology and the 21st century globalized city. Junctures I is the first of a series of projects that I hope to continue in Asia, North America and elsewhere.

More information at http://fkv.de/frontend_en/kalender_detail.php?id=697

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Artists Talk with Christian de Lutz at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
06 April at 7PM

His work combines photography, printmaking, video and installation with computer based media. Recent projects have focused on the connections between globalization and information. During his stay at the Deutsche Börse Residency Program he is researching the perceptions of those for whom Frankfurt has become a point of transit or migration. The core of the project are a series of interviews and 'mappings' exploring Frankfurt's position as a base for international finance and trade, commerce and culture.

More information at http://fkv.de/frontend_en/kalender_detail.php?id=697

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Coming, going, settling down. The city as hub, the city as staging point,
The city began as a marketplace.

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Frankfurt in late Winter, the residency, Pecha Kucha night at fkv

From 1 March - 25 April 2010 Christian de Lutz will take part in the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
http://fkv.de/frontend_en/program.php
http://fkv.de

Christian de Lutz, The Copyright Piece, 2009
(see http://cdelutz.blogspot.com/2009/08/copyright-piece-from-artist-statement.html)

Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft

Azin Feizabadi, Gilbert & George, Christian de Lutz, Triple Candie

The Creative Rights Library with documentation on Shepard Fairey vs AP, Richard Prince vs Patrick Cariou, Creative Commons, The Fair Use Projekt, Piratpartiet, etc.

Opening 27 November 2009, 8PM
Duration: 28 November 2009 - 7 February 2010
(closed 18 December 2009 - 3 January 2010)
Open Sat - Sun 2-6PM, exhibition tour 3PM

Workshop: "Copyright and related topics for artists. musicians, filmmakers and other creative producers" with Andreas Lichtenhahn (lawyer), in German.
28 November 2009, 15h (free, registration necessary: info@artlaboratory-berlin.org)

Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints.

Since the late 1970s appropriation of images and information by such artists as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince has become a common and accepted technique, part and parcel of postmodernism's critical approach. Indeed it follows a tradition that goes back through pop art and nouveau realisme to Dada and cubist collage. Not without ethical, aesthetic and legal controversy, a number of law cases involving appropriation seems to have increased in recent years involving artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey

The exhibition Creative Rights consists of three parts: The exhibition with four artistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright.

(more information)

Christian de Lutz is taking part in Projetaveis
a section of the the 7th Bienal do Mercosul
in Porto Alegre, Brasil
16 October - 29 November 2009


screen shot from http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/30


screen shot from http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/30


screen shot from http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/30

more at
http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/

The Copyright Piece

From the artist statement:

The 'Copyright Piece' is an audio work made by changing and distorting another audio piece. The 'original' is the subject of a copyright dispute, and was itself procured through questionable circumstances (ie youtube).

The 'purchaser' will sign a contract in which they agree to take over all rights and responsibilities for the piece. There will be no fee for becoming the 'purchaser', only their signature and presentation of identification. After the contract is signed, I will inform the 'purchaser' of the 'original material' used in the production of the 'Copyright Piece'. I will also retain the licensed right to exhibit the artist's copy six times, in consultation with 'the purchaser.' The 'purchaser' will otherwise fully 'own' the piece, all its rights, and attendant responsibilities, legal and otherwise.

The intrinsic value of the 'Copyright Piece' is its mockery of the marketplace. It seeks to replace the medium of money with the medium of risk. The 'purchaser's' role is a performative one, which completes the artwork. If the artwork has an extrinsic value it is to place the art world (already largely based on visual appropriation) in the grey world illicit reproduction that has flourished in our new digital climate.



CD with artist statement and contract
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Source Code images ( more at http://cdelutz.net/html/fine_arts_menu.htm)


untitled (weather#4), 2009, digitally altered photograph, archival inkjet print on canvas, 70 x 100 cm


riga/melissa, 2007, digitally altered photograph, archival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 90 cm

Seafaring Route (Who is K.Mardam Bey?)
Director Animation, 5:45


The digital animation piece Seafaring Route (Who is K.Mardam Bey?),2009, is an exploration into the nature of cultural communication through the ages.

The animation opens with a satellite view of the Levantine coast, one of the oldest seacoast based cultures on earth. From here the Phoenicians set forth to colonize the Mediterranean, starting a tradition of cultural exchange and diaspora that has lasted over 3000 years.

From a space age view of Tel Aviv the screen travels north over Haifa to Tyre, Sidon and Beirut. Metonymous with the combination of satellite imaging and simulated drawings, made out of altered photographs, the viewer is witness to a dialogue between two anonymous online writers discussing the Palestinian software designer Khaled Mardam Bey and mIRC , the internet chat client he developed.

Seafaring Route (Who is K.Mardam Bey?) makes reference to levels of technology and communication, layering them over a historical background of various media – pen, photography, film and computer based media. It also refers to the Sisyphean task of controlling the technology we develop, especially as to its use and misuse.

Additionally a series of digital prints, taken from images used for the animation are presented.


animation still

animation still

animation still

installation view

installation view

installation view

Artneuland e.V. | Schumannstrasse 18 | 10117 Berlin | Germany
Tel: +49 (0)30 28046650, 28047013 | Fax: +49 (0)30 28092950
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“Sea faring- route. Berlin. Tel Aviv. Beirut.”

Photography. Video. Installation.
Busy, hectic, multicultural are words in which all these three cities can be easily described. Though lacking topographical or political similarities, they share an atmosphere of constant motion and exchange of goods, people and ideas. They became places that willingly accept and even look forward to vivid changes and new impulses. In this way, they offer the perception of the temporary and represent the ‘here and now’. This vibrating ambience makes the three cities function as ‘harbours’ in a sense other than geographical. While Tel Aviv and Beirut have in fact been major seaports, Berlin has a clear longing for it, what can be observed, for instance, in the multiple beaches constructed along the Spree.

Exhibition

The exhibition tries to expose different views on the topic expressed by the artists Ayelet Albenda, Ana Bilankov, Heike Barndt, Tim Deussen, Dotan & Perry, Anna Faroqhi, Lasse Lau, Dana Levy, Chris de Lutz, Guy Raz, Ilana Salama Ortar, Michael H. Shamberg, Simcha Shirman, Felice Naomi Wonnenberg, Paola Yacoub and Maya Zack. The artists adopt the local or project the foreign view on the cities’ life. This exchange of views and opinions among the international participants of our project is just another aspect of the lively Trialogue between the three busy harbours on this imagined seafaring route.

The project will be opened on the 2^nd of July 2009 at 7pm in Artneuland.

Schumannstraße 18, 10117 Berlin. It will remain open until the 8^th of August 2009.
more at http://artneuland.com/project.asp?pid=48

Välkommen till Öppet Hus i Nordiska Gästateljén i Malongen Onsdag 17 juni kl 20.30
Welcome to Open Studio in the Residency Studio in Malongen Wednesday June 17, 20.30

Christian de Lutz (Amerika/Tyskland) www.cdelutz.net har under juni månad 2009 en vistelseperiod i Malongen. Se mer på vår hemsida www.nkf.se .
NKF (Nordiska Konstförbundet Svenska sektionen) och Christian de Lutz bjuder in till Öppet Hus. Kom och träffas ett par timmar - vi bjuder på ett glas vin eller vatten, nåt att tugga på. Christian visar videoverk och bilder i ateljén. Christian de Lutz är verksam i Berlin och är vid sidan av sitt eget konstnärliga arbete curator och en av ledarna för det konstnärsdrivna galleriet Art Laboratory i Berlin.

Adress: Nordiska Gästateljén Malongen, Nytorget 15 A. Buss 3 eller 76 till hållplats Gotlandsgatan. Eller T-bana Skanstull.

Christian de Lutz (America/Germany) www.cdelutz.net is the Artist-in-Resident in the Nordic Residency Studio Malongen during June 2009. For more information see our website www.nkf.se .

NKF (Nordic Art Association Swedish section) and Christian de Lutz invite you to an Open Studio. You are welcome to meet Christian, take a look at some of his video- and photo work and to have a glass of wine in the evening of Wednesday June 17th.

Christian de Lutz lives and works in Berlin. Besides his own artistic work he is also a co-director and curator at Art Laboratory Berlin.

Address: Malongen Residency Studio, Nytorget 15 A. Bus 3 or 76 to Gotlandsgatan. T-bana Skanstull.

Untitled, from Christian de Lutz's cuts series

The series cuts examines the limits of the photographer’s perception, and the resistance of the world to portrayal. The works consist of small details of documentary photographs taken over the last 15 years. Often the images are of details I was unaware of while photographing. Like the main character in Antonioni’s Blow Up, I often only discover the secret narrative of these details “in the darkroom”. These “secret stories” take place in the background, on the margins, of the original images (which are now exterior, unknown to the viewer). Freed of their original context, they form new relationships with other works in the series, and with the world at large, quite independent of their documentary origin.

I am the June resident at the NKF Malongen residency in Stockholm.

Private Viewing
New Works from Christian de Lutz

15-17 May, 2009

at Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin-Wedding


untitled (sarajevo/love virus#2), 1996/2008, archival inkjet print on canvas, 100 x 150 cm


untitled (dobrinja), 1996/2009, archival inkjet print on canvas, 95 x 100cm

You are cordially invited to a private viewing of new works
by Christian de Lutz

Friday 15 May 6-9PM
Saturday and Sunday 16-17 May 2 - 6PM

Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34,
13359 Berlin
U bahn Pankstrasse (U8), Osloerstrasse (U8,U9)
S bahn Bornhomerstrasse