Art and Text: Christian de Lutz Ekphrasis at



29 September - 28 October 2007

The title of the exhibition, ekphrasis, means a verbal representation of visual representation; thus a double intermediation of the real, as a depiction of the depicted. It is in this very sense of ekphrasis that Christian de Lutz operates on the manifold character of references within his Source Code Images, which as a recent series are based on a digital collage of word and image...
-from a text by Regine Rapp.
(more under http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm
and http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-5.htm)

From the vernissage on 28 September 2007:

















all photos above by Tim Deussen fotoscout.de copyright 2007



photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007


Projection at Koloniestr 131, Berlin/ Projectraum Sumphahn/Art Laboratory Berlin
photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

Opening 22 August in Bern, Switzerland





the trail from srebrenica (background); sculpture (foreground) by Annika Unterburg



metacontent 1.0, 5.0, 6.0



untitled (riga2); caffebar flash art

Views of the Exhibition
Anatomie der Rastlosigkeit
Anatomy of Restlessness
Christian de Lutz
at fabrik.galerie/ Basisikulturfabrik
Neustrelitz, Germany
20 July 2007


untitled (kwyjibo) photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007


empire photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


women of roses, from the cuts series photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


on the road: keleti photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


from the empire series photo by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


installation views from europa (projection) photos by Jo Rapp copyright 2007


installation views from europa (projection) photo by Christian de Lutz copyright 2007

Exhibition runs 21 July - 2 September
daily from 5pm and by appointment

fabrik. galerie für gegenwartige kunst
Basiskulturfabrik - Sandberg3a - 17235 Neustrelitz
tel. 03981 20 31 45 www.basiskulturfabrik.de

Anatomie der Rastlosigkeit
Christian de Lutz

a solo exhibition of works 2002-2007
at the fabrik.galerie, Neustrelitz,Germany

Opening 20 July 8pm
Exhibition runs 21 July - 2 September
daily from 5pm and by appointment

fabrik. galerie für gegenwartige kunst
Basiskulturfabrik - Sandberg3a - 17235 Neustrelitz
tel. 03981 20 31 45 www.basiskulturfabrik.de

Cordoba - Works by Christian de Lutz







Opening: Friday 27 April, 8pm
Galerie Art Digital, GAD
Freienwalderstraße 30
U8 Pankstr./ S-Bahn Bornholmerstr.

Christian de Lutz’s work is an inquiry to the radical changes that photography and the idea of the visual image are undergoing today in our age of fast changing technology. His video Cordoba (2006) was filmed in the Mezquita of the Spanish city of Cordoba. Filmed at slow speed, the crowds of visiting tourists appear as phantom-like blurs. The audio track features a woman’s voice reading text fragments taken from online journals (blogs), written by immigrants from the Near East.

Medieval Cordoba was a vibrant multicultural center. The architectural remnants of this era contrast with the melancholy words of homesickness and estrangement in the script, as if to imply that only in the virtual world of the internet can occident and orient peacefully co-exist.

In his series Light Drawings the artist has digitally altered photographs that he took as a photojournalist in the 1990s, into what appear to be drawings. Pale Sensation, a picture of a crowd of onlookers and camera crews at a politically rally in Bosnia, has been transformed from news footage to aesthetic artefact. Also important here are the gaps, white spaces where visual information has been erased. The series title Light Drawings, refers to the etymological meaning of the word photography itself, both as a pun and a reference to the medium’s aesthetic roots.

The exhibition runs 28.04.-20.05.2007
Opening hours: 28 and 29* April 1-8pm and by appointment, 0179/1499265

* as part of the first Sunday Wedding program for Contemporaray Art in Berlin- Wedding.

Kunst! Ausstellung Kolonie Wedding
Neues Kunstquartier Berlin
14. April - 12. Mai 2007
Opening: 14. April 2007, 18:00 Uhr
Finissage: 12 May 2007
Wednesday - Friday 3 - 8 PM
Saturday and Sunday 12 - 5 PM

From the solo exhibition
The Digital Image at Galerie ONYVA, Maastrict
11 March - 15 April 2007

Christian de Lutz:The Digital Image

GALERIE ONYVA

Achter der Molens 24, 6211 JC Maastricht NL

Opening Reception 11 March from 3 PM

Exhibition runs through 15 April.
Open Thurs- Sat 11 AM - 5 PM and by appointment.
tel.+(31)43 3211 339 mob.+(31) (0)62185 1943 www.mariaes.nl

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