Steffen Kluge

This article deals with the artist Steffen Kluge. For the physician, see Stefan Kluge .

Steffen Kluge (born July 6, 1964 in Wolfsburg ) is a German artist and photographer who names his photographs and photographic works according to the work groups light graphics, light drawing and light painting.

Life

The mechanical engineer and materials scientist who did his doctorate at the TU Berlin started his artistic work while still at school and took art alongside mathematics as an advanced course in his Abitur. He currently lives and works in Wolfsburg and Flensburg .

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Since the early 1980s, Kluge has been working intensively on every form of lighting design. He uses the physical-optical possibilities of "light manipulation" such as light refraction, diffraction and reflection to design his works of art. All of his works are based on the idea of ​​“shaping”, “controlling” and “shaping” the infinite, disembodied light. Smart work is lighting design - the creation of a "light image" in the most elementary sense. The camera or photography is a crucial part of artistic technology. For Kluge, it is the technical possibility of recording his lighting design and making it “transportable”. Several light sources are the starting point for “processing” the light. The colors are "filtered out" of the white light by spectral decomposition with the help of optical prisms .

Art-historical references

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Steffen Kluge's photographic work is often associated with the work of the photographer and Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy .

For example, Peter Hahn, director of the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, wrote on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition there: “With his photographic works, Kluge refers to the visions of László Moholy-Nagy - painting without pigment, only with pure light in the border area between painting and photography . "

And in 1992, Floris M. Neusüss , Kunsthochschule Kassel , wrote experimental photography , photo forum : “Steffen Kluge's pictures are made using the black and white process described by Moholy Nagy, but not in black and white, but in color. I don't know any other artist who works according to this method ... "

In the work The Art of Abstract Photography , edited by Gottfried Jäger , Michael Köhler goes even further: “Steffen Kluge's light graphics are the product of 'pure light design' in the sense of László Moholy-Nagy. … Complex light modulations, as used by Kluge and which go far beyond what Moholy-Nagy once described, require a precise knowledge of the physical principles of light diffraction, refraction and reflection. "

The picture in the exhibition

Steffen Kluge's light graphics are preferably presented in large-format exhibitions. It is important to the artist not to give the viewer a finished interpretation of his pictures , but on the contrary to stimulate his imagination . In principle, he does not give his photographic works any titles in order not to let the viewer approach his work with bias.

literature

• Gottfried Jäger (Ed.): The art of abstract photography. Arnold, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89790-015-7 .
• Wilhelm Kufferath von Kendenich : Is that really art? An attempt at an answer using the example of the light graphic artist Steffen Kluge. Gaius Maecenas, Baar 1997, ISBN 3-907048-10-5 ( abstract ).
• Wilhelm Kufferath von Kendenich : Light symphonies in the magical shine of colors: Steffen Kluge. Gaius Maecenas, aar 1995, ISBN 3-907048-00-8 .
• MATRIX - magazine for literature and art. No. 2, Issue 16, 2009, ISBN 978-3-937139-74-6 .
• MATRIX - magazine for literature and art. No. 3, issue 13, 2008, ISBN 978-3-937139-50-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Steffen Kluge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lichtgraphik Steffen Kluge
• icon gallery