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Lukas Quietzsch at Kunstverein Freiburg

February 7, 2022

Artist: Lukas Quietzsch

Exhibition title: Groß und Klein

Curated by: Heinrich Dietz

Venue: Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Date: January 22 – March 6, 2022

Photography: Marc Doradzillo / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Kunstverein Freiburg

Lukas Quietzsch works predominantly in the medium of painting. The pieces for the exhibition Groß und Klein (Big and Small) were created in his home studio over the course of the past two years. The co-existence and pervasion of artistic, domestic and parental work appear within them as a central motif. This is driven by the question of how one can deal artistically with personality patterns that reproduce themselves in one’s own values and behaviours. Can rigid patterns be softened or hybridised?
Big and small – measure, scale, quantify. How else do we explain the world to our children?

Quietzsch negotiates visual codes and conditions of painting in a kind of emphatic analysis in which dualistic concepts such as affirmation and negation, uniqueness and uniformity, authenticity and staging dissolve in multi-perspective colour spaces. The gouache paints are repeatedly washed out during the painting process and leave behind an otherworldly shimmer of colour. Permeated by tipping points and disturbances, the images slowly unfurl their spaces of resonance. Associated temporalities, emerging possibilities mark the recognition of a motif, but the very next moment, the recognised eludes us and seems to be once again up for question.

Lukas Quietzsch, Groß und Klein, 2022, exhibition view, Kunstverein Freiburg

Lukas Quietzsch, LukasSchlafTraumSchrei, 2021, Gouache on canvas, 215 x 174,5 cm, Photo: Marc Doradzillo

Lukas Quietzsch, Zeichnungen von Edie ausgeschnitten und aufgeklebt, 2021, Gouache on canvas, 150 x 100 cm, Photo: Marc Doradzillo

Lukas Quietzsch, o.T., 2021, Gouache on canvas, 200 x 230 cm, Photo: Marc Doradzillo

Lukas Quietzsch, cute (but brutal), 2021, Gouache on canvas, 200 x 225 cm, Photo: Marc Doradzillo

Lukas Quietzsch, die nicht integrierten Personlichkeitsanteile meiner Eltern (die-sen meine Angste hinzugefugt und die Gedankengange angepasst), 2022, Gou-ache on canvas, 200 x 230 cm, Photo: Marc Doradzillo

Lukas Quietzsch, cute (but adult), 2021, Gouache on canvas, 154,5 x 119,5 cm, Photo: Marc Doradzillo