El-Andalus clips (2008)
is made up of five short clips, each under two minutes. The clips exist as stand alone works, or together. Three (no. 1,3 and 5) include recitations of a text collage derived from internet blogs written by migrants from the Near East ,living in Europe or North America. The narrator, uneasy in her use of English stumbles across the text. Combinations of takes and breakdowns are used as an editing device for the visual images, collected excerpts of footage from southern Spain - the ruins of a Moorish fort, the view across the straits of Gibraltar, architectural details from Alhambra - which refer to Europe's old cultural connection to the Near East. Image and text, unrelated in origin, combine and influence each others form to elicit new meanings and relations.
The soundtrack of El Andalus clip #2 (breath) is made up of the narrator's breaths, gasps and laughs between words. It forms a first intermezzo, when viewed with the other four clips
El Andalus #4 (fate) was filmed on a hillside on the SE Spanish coast. The soundtrack is one word (Inshallah) stretched out over the duration of the clip, which forms the second intermezzo, when all five clips are viewed together.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Strictly Berlin
GdK
12.04.2008-3.05.2008
Vernissage: 11.04.2008 from 8 PM
excerpt from bulbul (2006) dv,4'47"
The video bulbul (2006) will appear in the group show
Strictly Berlin 2008 - Between Fact and Fiction - Media Art from Berlin,
curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl.
GdK
Galerie der Künste
Potsdamerstr. 98
D-10785 Berlin
+49 (0)30 53060948
www.gdk-berlin.de
12.04.2008-3.05.2008, Opening 11.04.2008, 8 PM
open Wed-Sat 16-20h
GdK
12.04.2008-3.05.2008
Vernissage: 11.04.2008 from 8 PM
excerpt from bulbul (2006) dv,4'47"
The video bulbul (2006) will appear in the group show
Strictly Berlin 2008 - Between Fact and Fiction - Media Art from Berlin,
curated by Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl.
GdK
Galerie der Künste
Potsdamerstr. 98
D-10785 Berlin
+49 (0)30 53060948
www.gdk-berlin.de
12.04.2008-3.05.2008, Opening 11.04.2008, 8 PM
open Wed-Sat 16-20h
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Monday, October 08, 2007
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
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
Monday, August 20, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
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
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
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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
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
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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.
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.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 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
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
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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
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
Friday, June 23, 2006
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
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
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
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
Saturday, October 22, 2005
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
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