Simone Lucas

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Simone Lucas (* 1973 in Neuss ) is a German artist.

life and work

Lucas studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where she was a master student of the painter Dieter Krieg , a representative of the New Figuration .

Similar to war, she dedicates herself to a new objectivity in her pictures - turning away from the temporarily predominant mainstream of abstraction in postmodern painting. Her early work was even stronger through comic and pop art influences and from an ironic-pointed discussion and the like. a. coined with mannerism . The series Austria Colored and Seasons , in which landscapes, female nudes and portraits as well as social clichés represent central motifs that correspond and merge with one another, are examples of an independent new combination and interpretation of well-known style elements and types.

In her creative phase since the mid-2000s, she combines expressionistic and surrealist elements, some of which appear abstract, which come together in their own way of expression to form an “astonishing” New Realism and in which the artist takes up motifs from science, religion and mysticism. Here, it removes the boundaries between outside and inside spaces, creating multiple levels of reality. A reference to the history of art or literature is helpful here for understanding. For an interpretation of these mostly large-scale paintings, what Alfred Döblin wrote about Franz Kafka and his storytelling can apply : “They are reports of complete truth, not at all like invented, strangely mixed up, but of a completely true, very real one Center organized. "

A recurring, central theme is the interpretation and meaning of women in modern society, the role (mis) understanding of the sexes and the search for a sincere attitude in this artistically turned inside out conflict. However, this discussion does not take place with a "raised index finger", but in a (self) ironic, deliberately exaggerated manner - and thereby also subversively questions the classic positions of traditional feminism , which seems to be more and more like a conservative dogma and to reject substantial further development.

Lucas works are u. a. has been presented at exhibitions in New York, Madrid, Milan and Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
  • 2000: Simone Lucas. Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
  • 2006: Cynthia I love you. Kunstraum Düsseldorf (with Ina Weber)
  • 2007: The Visible Universe. Anna Klinkhammer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2009: Simone Lucas. Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
  • 2010: I Don't Need Fancy. Villa de Bank, Enschede (with Sven Kroner)
  • 2011: If I don't lose my thought, nothing can happen. Anna Klinkhammer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2012: The Traitor. Art Association Arthaus e. V., Ahaus Castle
  • 2014: Kosmologhia. Rupert Pfab Gallery, Düsseldorf
Group exhibitions
  • 1999: height × width. Bayerische Landesbank International SA, Luxembourg
  • 2001: Paper Jam - Young Art in Focus. Bielefelder Kunstverein
  • 2002: For indoor use. Gallery Knecht, Karlsruhe
  • 2003: Flashback: Midsummer. Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
  • 2005: Young West 2005. Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
  • 2005: Fresh, pious, happy, free. Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin
  • 2006: Paraisos Artificiales (artificial paradise). Pilar Parra & Romero Galeria, Madrid
  • 2007: Dream ship painting. Ratingen Museum
  • 2008: Nuovo pittori tedeschi. Studio D'Arte Cannaviello, Milan
  • 2009: November. Villa Goecke, Krefeld
  • 2010: Elbvenus. Gallery Zanderkasten, Dresden
  • 2010: Bergische Art Exhibition. Baden Museum , Solingen / Remscheid Municipal Gallery
  • 2011: Kunsthalle goes to school. Darmstadt art gallery
  • 2013: Boys 'n' Girls. State Art Gallery Karlsruhe

literature

  • Schmarsow, Jürgen et al .: Simone Lucas. Beautiful pictures. Kunstkreis Xanten eV, Gallery Peter Tedden (Ed.), Düsseldorf 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simone Lucas. In: simonelucas.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Jürgen Schmarsow: The disturbed idyll . In: Simone Lucas. Beautiful pictures. Kunstkreis Xanten eV, Gallery Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf 2004, p. 2 .
  3. ↑ Simone Lucas - Kosmologhia. Exhibition from February 21, 2014 - March 29, 2014. Galerie Pfab, accessed on November 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Bert Nagel: Kafka and the world literature. Connections and interactions . Winkler Verlag, Munich 1983, p. 104 .
  5. ^ Simone Lucas - Anna Klinkhammer Gallery - Düsseldorf. In: anna-klinkhammer.de. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Simone Lucas. Profile on artfacts website, accessed October 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ I don't need fancy on the Villa de Bank website, accessed September 30, 2014.
  8. ↑ If I keep thinking, nothing can happen on the gallery's website, accessed September 30, 2014.
  9. ^ The traitor on the website of the Kunstverein Arthaus e. V., accessed on September 30, 2014.
  10. ↑ Kosmologhia on the website of Galerie Pfab, accessed on October 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lucas, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss