Easy Transport
The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Skopje, Macedonia
12 July - 10 September, 2006

The meta content series by Christian de Lutz. .... photograph by Jovan Balov (copyright 2006)

KOLONIE WEDDING BERLIN: Armin Kauker; Mathias Mayer aka Mo Magic; Michaela Strumberger; Claudia Michaela Kochsmeier; Frank Pieperhoff; Christoph Faulhaber; Jovan Balov; Ivona Borkowska; Lucyna Viale; Maciej Diczkowski; Gertsovskaya Marina; Barbara Klinker; Marina G. M. Lyubaskina; Mihail Molohnikov.
PRIMA CENTER BERLIN: Heiko Daxl; Christian de Lutz; Tim Deussen; Archi Galentz; Sybille Hoessler; Peter Kees; Otjörg A.C.; Wadim Rakowski.

The Berlin art scene has reached a substantial level, yet it is still growing. One of the essential changes is the spontaneous de-centralization and its expansion to the other parts of the city. While in the past the points of all kinds of art events were focused on the center of Berlin, since recently the art, especially the alternative one, is being relocated around Berlin Mitte: Kreutzberg, Prentzlauer Berg, Friedrichshain, Tiergarten and of course Wedding offer cultural and artistic programs of every kind.

The carriers of the artistic and cultural events in Wedding are the members of the “Wedding Colony” - “Kolonie Wedding”, an association of art galleries and ateliers. The idea for this association was born out of the necessity to revive culturally this part of Berlin.
...

The number of the Colony’s members is growing and the cooperation and exchange with artists from abroad is also rising. In the past two years it has promoted projects with artists from the Czech Republic, France, Croatia and Poland, and for next year it plans and exchange with Belgium. The present exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art is also part of the concept of presenting the “colonists” abroad and developing a long term and productive cooperation and exchange with the Macedonian artists and cultural institutions.

The gallery Prima Center Berlin has been a member of the association “Wedding Colony” since 2004. Jovan Balov, an artists and the founder of this gallery, says: “It is a gallery, an institution, a space for the art”.... The primary objective of PCB is to make a long term exchange platform between the German artists and the artists from the Balkan countries and to present their works both to the art experts and to the art lovers in each of the countries. The other objective of PCB is to present the works by foreign artists who live and work in Germany.

-Elizabeta Lindner

The coordinator of Easy Transport at the Museum of Contemporary Art is Rolph Kültz-Mackenzie Ph.D. who, as a friend of the “Kolonie Wedding” and the gallery Prima Center Berlin, made the selection of... artists and artworks for this exhibition.

More under http://www.prima-centar-skopje.org/ProektiPCS/EasyTransport.htm
and http://www.msuskopje.org.mk/?sid=698&lid=1




.all photos by Jovan Balov Copyright 2006........................... http://www.prima-centar-skopje.org

Review of Berlin Biennale

Regine Rapp and I have written a review of the 4th Berlin Biennale
for Portal Kunstgeschichte (http://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/ )
to read the review (in German) click here

  
As of 25 May I now have a site at http://saatchigallery.com/yourgallery

light drawings

                  
i dig a pony ...............gardens of alipasna polje ....after thefall ................radovan's girl

light drawings, recent works, such as caffe bar Flash Art, the gardens of ali pasa polje and after the fall, are reworkings of photographs I took in Bosnia-Herzogonia in the 1990s. I have digitally re-worked the photographs to appear like drawings, a reference to the word 'photography' meaning 'light drawing'.

The process also includes erasing certain parts of the image. In 'editing' these once 'documentary' photographs I choose, like the photo editor of a newspaper or magazine, to highlight or remove certain information. But in these works the manipulation becomes evident to the viewer who is forced to distinguish between the 'subjective' hand of the drawer and the 'objective' eye of the photographer.

The resulting works defy categorization as either documentary or aesthetic, photograph or drawing; but seek to provoke a discussion on these categories themselves.

More examples can be found at this page on my newly updated website

new works

                    
temp path ..............mirror(... echo) ................charcode/ nologo ..............pale sensation

temp path, and charcode/nologo combine photographic images from my archive with samples of virus source code. In mirror (narcissism's echo) I have sampled source code from sound software, used to provide an echo effect. Text and image meet at a connotative level by means of a metaphor (ie the connection between a mirror and an echo).

pale sensation is derived from a photograph I took in 1996 at a campaign rally in Pale, Bosnia. The subjects of the photograph are the journalists and camera crews present at the rally; a fact heightened by erasure of details and use of digital filters to make the image appear like a large scale drawing. The cameraman in the forground reminds me of Velazquez by his easel in Las Meninas. The staged media event has become the atelier of our age.

More examples of my work can be found at my website

flora of the drina valley
part of the Kolonie Wedding program for 15 July 2005

more at: http://www.koloniewedding.de/index/6214/

new works 05: source code images

                 
avebury/kournik..1   avebury/kournikova2    avebury/kournikova3    GlobalFree state.buffer

The series avebury/kournikova combines digitally reworked photographs with source code from the Kournikova virus. The resulting images are digitally altered with a series of algorithms to imitate brushstrokes; then printed on canvas and stretched. GlobalFree state.buffer combines a photograph of part of a sufi (Bektashi) monastery in Tetovo, Macedonia with source code from the MyDoom virus.


More examples of the source code series can be found on my website at this link

source code images:

Photos of the Vernissage on 12 November 2004

Jovan Balov of Prima Center (left) and Christian de Lutz (right)
photo copyright 2004 by Matthias von Hoff Koloniewedding

photo copyright 2004 by Matthias von Hoff Koloniewedding

boluga's sister, 1997/2001.
photo copyright 2004 by Matthias von Hoff Koloniewedding

from the series balkan sketchbook.
Photo copyright 2004 by Regine Rapp

Photos copyright 2004 by Regine Rapp

at Prima Center Berlin

12 November - 08 December 2004
Wednesday - Saturday 2PM - 7PM
Finnisage: 8 December 7PM

Prima Center Berlin
Biesentaler Str. 24
13359 Berlin
Tel:0171 985 7497
Fax 030 49910397

source code images:

an exhibition of new works

at Prima Center Berlin

12 November - 04 December 2004
Tuesday - Saturday 2PM - 7PM
Vernissage: 12 November 8PM

Prima Center Berlin
Biesentaler Str. 24
13359 Berlin
Tel:0171 985 7497
Fax 030 49910397

New Work 2004: Source Code Images

most, 1996/2004, inkjet pigment print on paper 80 x 120 cm

"Melissa is the first combination Word macro virus and worm to use the Outlook and Outlook Express address book to send itself to others via E-mail. "
http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vthistory.htm
Source code from the Melissa virus is placed over a digitally altered photograph of the Ottoman bridge of Visegrad, Bosnia, famously described in Ivo Andric's novel Bridge on the River Drina, suggesting a somewhat darker side to the bridge as an architectural and/or communicative element.

rollover, 2000/2004, inkjet pigment print on canvas 70 x 100 cm

The text here is a fragment from the javascript code for a rollover or mouseover.

agni, 2000/2004, inkjet pigment print on canvas 80 x 120 cm

A digitally reworked photograph, taken in Romania in 1997, is covered with a fragment of HTML source code from a website about the influence of Hindu traditions on Roma culture.

Politische Ästhetik: Dokumentation dokumentiert

a group exhibition of political art
14 may 2004 - 05 June 2004
at the TAKT Galerie Knorrpromenade 1 10245 Berlin

some photos from the vernissage and exhibition:

foto:(C) Tim Deussen, www.tapezismus.de, 2004

foto: (C)Tim Deussen, www.tapezismus.de, 2004

foto: (C)Christian de Lutz, 2004

foto: (C)Christian de Lutz, 2004

Opening on Friday 14 May

Politische Ästhetik: Dokumentation Dokumentiert

Tim Deussen - Christian de Lutz - Wolfgang Müller - Wolfgang Spahn - Dmitri Vilensky

14.05.2004 - 05.06.2004

Vernissage: 14.05.2004 um 20 Uhr

Panel Diskussion: 23.05.2004 um 19 Uhr

Takt Kunstprojektraum. Knorrpromenade 1, 10245 Berlin. 030 2977 4733. do - sa 16- 20 Uhr

S-bhf Ostkreuz, Warschauerstr.,Tram 23

the EMPIRE series, 2003

This series explores the `time resistance’ of three media: photography, painting and television. The immediate subject of the series is the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March/April 2003. The images are photographs taken of BBC broadcasts during the war. The inclusion of the TV screen, as well as the BBC logo, remind the viewer that she is watching a (historical) event indirectly. This is very much what the Canadian writer Michael Ignatieff referred to during the earlier (first) gulf war as the TV or `virtual war’. The viewer often has access to events in real time, although in an often sanitised and always virtual form.

By the use of digital filters the images have been altered so as to appear like paintings. They have `virtual’ paint strokes, and are printed on canvas. They are in effect photographs of TV images masquerading as counterfeit paintings. As such they point to photography’s intermediate and mediating role between the ephemeral character of television images and the eternal aspect of history painting.

the kasimir series: a new net.art piece by Christian de Lutz

Among the urban myths that have predominated since 9-11 is the belief that Al-Qaeda hid secret messages in data, which they then sent over the net. As far as I know this is only a myth. Yet it dovetails with all the 'chatter' about encryption, hacking and the famed 'echelon' intelligence gathering system. In my kasimir series I have taken up this conceit. I have hidden two secret messages in two HTML files, masquerading as abstract images. One is a quick note to Denisa Kera. The second is a letter to Yuri Albert, describing my experiences taking part in his performance in Berlin in January 2004.

Should anyone fail to find the message I have enclosed a 'note' to the piece. All three pages can be accessed through my net.art portal http://net.cdelutz.net

screenshot of kasimir 1, 2004

screenshot of kasimir1 and source code

screenshot of kasimir2, 2004

screenshot of the source code for kasimir 2

photo: Yuri Albert copyright 2004

Me participating in Yuri Albert's performance at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin January 31, 2004

New Works 2004: from the series europa and metacontent



Latvia, 1996/2004 from the series europa




metacontent 7.0, 1998/2004 from the series metacontent




metacontent 8.0, 1998/2004 from the series metacontent


for further images go to my website

Jenseits der Fotografie. Europa.

eine Ausstellung von Christian de Lutz




Beyond Photography. Europe.

An exhibition by Christian de Lutz


Bilder von der Vernissage/ from the opening









photos by Tim Deussen www.tapezismus.de. (mobile phone image: Iris Munt)


exhibition runs from

27 November 2003 – 02 January 2004

Galerie südost Zentrum
Großbeerenstr.88, 10963 Berlin
Mo - Fr 10 - 17 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung
030/ 253 77 990 Kontakt: Iwona Mickiewicz