Sehnsucht | Lydiane Lutz

In her new series of works on glass, Lutz explores longing, trust and devotion. Longing is a quiet but persistent state. It is not necessarily directed towards a specific goal, but describes an inner desire - for lightness, for being carried.

In her artistic work, Lydiane Lutz has been approaching this state with remarkable consistency and sensitivity for many years.

Her paintings focus on people in the water. They float, are held, lose their weight. Water is not just a motif, but a basic condition: It stands for relationship, for transition, for letting go of control. As a woman and as an artist, Lutz explores what it means to let yourself be carried - in life, in interpersonal relationships, in your own body. Her figures do not seem to fight, but to trust.

Formally, the works move between impressionism, expressionism and abstraction. The canvases are often deliberately left open, not filled to the last centimeter. These open spaces are not empty spaces, but invitations: to one's own imagination, to meditation, to losing oneself in the picture. Longing arises precisely where something is not fixed.

Lutz also follows this principle technically. Pigments in intense, powerful colors dissolve in the water, flow into one another, elude complete control and create a watercolor-like transparency. The picture is created through the interplay of intention and chance - a process that reflects the drifting itself.

In the latest series, presented for the first time, the artist goes one logical step further. The classic canvas is replaced by transparent acrylic glass. The works consist of several layers that are spatially separated from one another. The spaces in between - air, distance, permeability - become the main protagonists. Perspective is no longer fixed, but depends on the viewer's position. Proximity and distance, freedom and connection shift with every movement.

These works pose questions: What do we really long for? What drives us? What fulfills us? What ultimately makes us human? In a time of artificial intelligence, automation and a flood of fast-moving images, this slow, physical, breathing painting takes on particular relevance. It calls for presence instead of continuity, sensation instead of efficiency.

Lydiane Lutz's works remind us that longing is not a lack, but a force. A movement towards the open, towards the indeterminate - and thus towards ourselves.

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Vernissage: Friday, Feb. 27, 19:00
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