Theresa Lükenwerk

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Theresa Lükenwerk (* 1962 in Berlin ) is a German artist who became best known at the beginning of the 21st century for her raster drawings. The structure of the drawing from abstract grid points and the often radical section of a figurative image are characteristic of her conceptual work.

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In general, the medium of drawing is attributed the specific quality of the spontaneous and sketchy, and the line is considered a direct expression of the artist's inner being, a subjective trace. With Lükenwerk, however, this trace of the drawing hand appears anonymous. The objectivity of the structure, the grid points , is in the field of tension with the subjective image finding.

Insofar as it makes sense at all to make a clear distinction within the genres of the visual arts, the inconspicuousness of the means, the fragility of the carrier material and the intimacy of Lükenwerk's working method related to writing point to the drawing. In contrast, the layered structure of the picture from the surface refers to the panel picture or the painting . The stratification of the surface from “light to dark” corresponds to the basic principle of the image structure from “fat on lean”. With the abstract halftone dots repeated by hand, Lükenwerk also cites the industrial process of offset printing .

Regardless of the genre in which the work is classified, the lavish use of time remains an essential characteristic. The author Knut Ebeling speaks of “time loops of repetition” as a “variation of the old vanitas motif: Because the time that has entered the pages does not return”. The motifs also revolve around the topic of time: the human being in his passing lifetime and his view of nature, of nature. The slow process of finding images and forgetting “writing time” ( Hanne Darboven ) contrasts with the common forms of appearance such as permanent presence and mass output.

Literature / catalogs

  • Theresa Lükenwerk: Maps of Berlin. aga press, Baden-Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-945364-00-0 .
  • Reinhard Ermen: Seen from the outside. Kunstforum International, from Vol. 202, 2010, Fiktion der Kunst der Fiktion
  • Institute for Foreign Relations: Line Line Linea - Drawing of the Present. DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9300-3 .
  • Theresa Lükenwerk: The Bubble on the Beach Ball. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-16-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Schwarz: "Not a Drawing" in "Drawing is a different kind of language", Daco-Verlag Günter Bläse Stuttgart
  2. ↑ Knut Ebeling on the artist's working method - https://www.kehrerverlag.com/de/theresa-luekenwerk-the-bubble-on-the-beach-ball-978-3-939583-16-5
  3. ↑ Walter Benjamin: About painting or signs and marks. Collected writings, II.2, Frankfurt a. M., 1977
  4. ^ "Materials and Techniques of Painting", Freiburg 2009
  5. ^ The Bubble on the Beach Ball , Heidelberg 2007
  6. ↑ Donation according to the 2007 annual report from the Städel Museum and Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung http% 3A% 2F% 2Fwww.staedelmuseum.de% 2Fsites% 2Fdefault% 2Ffiles% 2Fstaedel_jahresbericht_2007_final.pdf
  7. ↑ Group exhibition Line Line Linea Drawing of the Present 11.02. - May 16, 2010 An exhibition by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) in cooperation with the Bonn Art Museum
  8. ↑ July 20, 2007 to January 7, 2008. Graphics in the light. From the collection of the Berlinische Galerie
personal data
SURNAME Lükenwerk, Theresa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luekenwerk, Theresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin