Lutz Fritsch
Lutz Fritsch develops and designs yardsticks for specific spaces which he offers up as sight assistants, so to say - be it on a piece of paper, on the walls of an exhibition space or in the middle of a landscape. His luminous red, blue, yellow, or green lacquered aluminium plates and metal objects seem almost immaterial in their artificial perfection and thereby allow for a particular attentiveness to the space surrounding them. Fritsch follows hereby a "dialectic' method, joining provisionally the spectacular with the modest, and conceiving his objects as understatements and exclamation points at the same time. In providing us with these sight assistants in the form of reduced drawings and sculptures, and integrating within these the dimension of a sovereign aesthetic, he directs us past optical measurement and comparison for sure: the physical places and spaces whose characteristics Fritsch tests and questions- with the help of a compositrial austerity that can be placed between Minimalism and Landscape paintings -are expanded through his work on imaginary and associated spaces. The seeming simplicity of material intervention makes the greatness or perhaps better, the expanse of the resulting spaces for reflection and spaces for imagining possible at all. In connection with three extensive research trips to the arctic and antarctic - out of which his project "library in ice" came forth - he was again able to bring this interaction particularly distinctly before his (and our) eyes.
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Lutz Fritsch
"Postkarten lügen nicht" (postcards don´t lie). 2009
Courtesy: Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
Galerie Christian Lethert
Antwerpener Straße 4
D-50672 Cologne
+49 (0)221 35 60 590
Antwerpener Straße 4
D-50672 Cologne
+49 (0)221 35 60 590
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