LUKAS QUIETZSCH – DSTRYR
2024-09-02“To recognize is to bring back to mind. To partially recognize is to recall a detail of an absent object or its immediate surroundings; it’s the inaccessibility of the mark, and the overwhelming excess of an “inside,” “around,” “nearby.” It is a key in a lock that won’t turn. If these paintings are allegorical montages of missed marks, how come they present with the intactness of a mirror, the self-evidence of a photograph? And why do they seem to reflect, in a flash, glimpses of the recent past?
One answer might be found in the artist’s “unproductive” approach to their own work: a preoccupation with the power of association and its inherent destruction as desire moves from one object to another; with a working through rather than the conscious encoding of ideas. Here—where the can is burst open, and it’s less about stuff going in or rather on—moments of recognition rarely show up in their representational function. Instead, what gently emerges are the abstract relationships between the parts that remain absent—a kind of
familiar unseen.”
Erika Landström
Opposite – Untitled, 2024
Exhibition runs through to October 26th, 2024
Galerie Gisela Capitain
St. Apern Straße 26
50667 Cologne
Germany
