Leda Luss Luyken

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Leda Luss Luyken , b. Valata, (* 1952 in Athens ) is a Greek / American conceptual artist who lives and works in Germany.

biography

Leda Luss Luyken attended the Ecole d'Humanité in Switzerland. Her talent was recognized early on and she set up her own little studio, in which she exhibited at the age of 13 and which still exists today. Leda Luss Luyken later studied art and architecture in Zurich, New York and Manchester. She was particularly influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright , Mies van der Rohe and Richard Neutra as well as Frank Gehry . She also received lessons from the painter and sculptor Alfred de Vivanco-Luyken . Impressions from Japanese garden architecture also flowed into her work. She began her professional career as an interior and architectural designer in New York, without ever giving up painting. In 1983 she started her career as a freelance artist and has since worked as a concept artist in England, Germany and Greece.

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From 1985 to 1996 Leda Luss Luyken created figurative works, from nude drawings and torsos to expressive figurative painting . These works were shown in two gallery exhibitions in Amsterdam and documented in an art book in 1997.

Luss Luyken has been experimenting and working with ModulArt since the mid-1990s , thus presenting a new concept in contemporary art that only emerges in interaction with the viewer. ModulArt works are large-scale picture compositions that are composed of square basic elements (60 × 60 cm each) within a prefabricated frame. "I design 50% of my works, the other 50% are designed by the viewer," says Luss Luyken. She encourages buyers of a ModulArt picture to rearrange the squares within the frame from their own perspective. In this way, the viewer can always redesign the expressiveness of the picture. With every change of the basic elements, the expressionist works with graphic elements show new artistic and content-related areas of tension, which the painter already considers when designing her works.

Leda Luss Luyken has further developed the ModulArt technique in the field of painting to her original artistic work idea and works in thematic painting cycles: Millenium (1996–2002); Greek Spirit (2003-2005); Genesis (2006–2008) and 96% Dark Matter (2008–2010), Cosmos Sensual (2010–2011) and Radioactive (2016–2018). Each of these cycles includes several large-format works measuring 180: 180 cm and larger, in which the artist deals with the respective topic. She finds her main focus mainly in the area of ​​evolution and the cosmos, partly contrasted by motifs from antiquity. The central work idea of ModulArt corresponds to Luss Luyken's leitmotif according to Heraklit: pantha rei , everything flows. She translates this into the artistic form of expression of the diverse, changeable ModulArt and thus the fundamental incompletion and constant changeability. She expressly respects the viewer's freedom to perceive and vary the work from his or her own individual perspective.

Leda Luss Luyken's ModulArt was shown to the public in museum exhibitions and gallery exhibitions and documented in a catalog, a monograph, a collection catalog and three films.

Curated museum and art exhibitions

  • 1996 Grassi Museum in Leipzig | Palympsistos | Solo exhibition |
  • 1998 Colored and White, Art Pavilion Munich | Solo exhibition |
  • 2001 House of Art | Munich | K 01 | Group exhibition |
  • 2003 Collection of casts of antique plastic | Berlin | 4Olympia04 | Solo exhibition |
  • 2004 House of Art | Munich | K 04 | Group exhibition |
  • 2006 Greek Spirit: e-motion, camera artis, scene for modern art | Munich | Solo exhibition |
  • 2008 Genesis, Camera artis, venue for modern art | Munich | Solo exhibition |
  • 2008 City Museum in Weimar | Greek Spirit | Solo exhibition |
  • 2009: ModulArt = 4 ^ yxy !, Marstall , Berg (Starnberger See) | Solo exhibition

Working in public space

United Buddy Bear for Greece , designed by Leda Luss Luyken, here: Exhibition at the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro 2014 (second bear from left)
  • 1985 1000 years of Verden | Wall glass sculpture | 10: 2.50 meters
  • 1988 Links | The European Institute for the Media | Manchester (UK) | 480: 180 cm
  • 1999 Left | 480: 180 cm | State Institute for Media | Chamber of Architects NW | Düsseldorf |
  • 2002 Aphrodite | United Buddy Bear on behalf of the Embassy of the Hellenic Republic in Berlin; supported by honorary consul Mme. Madeleine Schickedanz | exhibited at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and auctioned for the benefit of UNICEF
  • 2003 Olympic Ambassador | Buddy Bear for the Hellenic Republic , shown publicly in 2003 Berlin | 2003 Kitzbühel (AU) | 2004 Hong Kong | 2004 Istanbul | 2005 Tokyo | 2005 Seoul | 2005 Sydney | 2006 Berlin | 2006 Vienna | 2007 Cairo | 2007 Jerusalem | 2008 Warsaw | 2008 Stuttgart | 2008 Pong Yang | 2009 Buenos Aires | 2009 Montevideo | 2009 Berlin | 2010 Astana | 2010 Helsinki | 2011 Sofia | 2011 Berlin | 2012 New Delhi |
  • 2004/05 Yellow Angel | Sculpture 63: 99: 85 cm | on behalf of ADAC | and publicly exhibited in the ADAC Rheinland |
  • 2010 2K1 | a contemporary dance module art video project with Aurelia Baumgartner | Art gallery whiteBOX Kultfabrik | Munich |

Literature and films

  • Breaking the Rules | Breaking the Rules, Ed. By Tom Prader, English and German | Zurich | 1997.
  • TryDax, designed and published by Klaus Walterspiel, Munich 2000.
  • Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt, ed. by George of Cape Lord | English and German | Bobingen 2008 |
  • Wandering years. Works from the Kaske Collection 1970 - 2010 | ed. by the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation as well as Dagmar and Joachim Kaske with texts by Anna Wondrak | Munich 2011: pp. 6, 12, 18, 19, 38, 63, 70, 71.
  • Παντα ρει: Leda Luss Luyken's ModulArt | Film + TV documentary | 12 '| from 3'30 ”Films | Berlin | 2004 |
  • ModulArt © LLL, 1'30 ”| by Roman Luyken | Studio L | London | 2009 |
  • Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt | TV feature from Peider Defilla | BRα - ARD | 15 '| 2011 |

Web links

Commons : ModulArt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ "Always at Midnight" Gallery Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, 1992 and "De koning en zijn hofhouding" Gallery Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, 1994
  2. Tom Prader (Ed.): Breaking the Rules | Break the rules. Zurich 1997.
  3. Bayerisches Fernsehen, BR-alpha, Forum der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstraum: br-online.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Munich 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de  
  4. Werner Ludewig: Art, literature, music: data u. Facts e.g. Look up. [Epochs and Works by d. Antiquity to z. Present] . Ed .: Lexicon Institute Bertelsmann. Bertelsmann-Lexikonverlag, Gütersloh / Berlin / Munich / Vienna 1975, OCLC 643736364 , p. 99 ( books.google.de ).
  5. Painting tableaus. In: Georg von Kap-herr: Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt. Bobingen 2008, pp. 33-79.
  6. see examples on this at: Wiki Commons
  7. Klaus Walter game: TryDax, Munich, 2000
  8. Georg von Kap-herr: Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt. Bobingen 2008
  9. Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation, Dagmar and Joachim Kaske (eds.): Wanderjahre. Works from the Kaske Collection 1970 - 2010. With texts by Anna Wondrak, Munich 2011: pp. 6, 12, 18, 19, 38, 63, 70, 71.
  10. Dagmar Scheibert and Reinhard Eisner: Παντα ρει: Leda Luss-Luyken's ModulArt, film + TV documentary, 12 ', Berlin, 2004 | Roman Luyken: ModulArt © LLL, 1'30 ”, Studio L, London, 2009 | Peider Defilla: Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt, TV Feature for BRalpha TV, 15 ', Munich 2011
  11. ^ The European Cultural Foundation & The European Institute for the Media: Europe 2000: What Kind of Television? Manchester 1988, ISBN 0-948195-17-7 , p. Ii and cover
  12. Communication from the State Agency for Media North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM), Head of Human Resources and Organization from October 9, 2009
  13. Buddy Bear Berlin: We have to get to know each other better .... ed. by Eva & Klaus Herlitz , Berlin, 2002, pp. 78–79.
  14. United Buddy Bears: The Art of Tolerance. ed. by Eva and Dr. Klaus Herlitz , Berlin 2009, pp. 136-137.
  15. cf. continuous documentation at: buddy-baer.com
  16. ^ ADAC: Art pieces. Catalog, Munich 2005, pp. 42–43.
  17. whiteBOX Kultfabrik: Eurydice 2012, Catch Me If You Can whitebox-ev.de , Munich 2010
  18. reviewed by Ingrid Zimmermann: Pantha rei as the leitmotif of creativity. Leda Luss Luykens: ModulArt. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 16, 2008
  19. Bayerisches Fernsehen, BR-alpha, Forum der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstraum: br.de , March 30, 2011