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Lutz Braun
Wesungen
Twelve pigmented inkjet prints on archival cardboard
each 29.7 x 21 cm
Edition: 12 (3 EA), in embossed linen folder, signed, numbered
1,400 €
Lutz Braun’s “Wesungen” are, at first glance, dystopian images of isolation, despair, desolate landscapes, stories. But that is not the only thing: the images are not exclusively narrative in the sense of depiction, but the figures all stand in front of the viewer in visibly artificial landscapes and architectures as if in stage situations, i.e. they are more like performances than narratives. In them, as with Lutz Braun’s paintings, content and form become one. Color plays a central role in the artist’s work, in this case the bright primary colors of commercially available ballpoint pens. Landscape, always a core of Braun’s painting, takes on a lightness in this porous and sketchy version that contradicts the dystopian mood. The light-sensitive ballpoint pen drawings are made permanent by the printing technique (pigment ink on archival paper).
