Ulrich Lindner

AI generated: The image shows a detailed, standing statue in front of a weathered and historic wall. It conveys an atmospheric scene full of history and antiquity.

Sheet X of the series "Italian Capricci" - 2014 - 57 x 74 cm (detail) | © Ulrich Lindner

Ulrich Lindner's magical-surreal scenes, in which people only appear in the traces of their deeds, have no pictorial reference to the place of their creation, at best a metaphorical one. The artist composes these scenes from his own photographs of concrete objects and concrete places, thus creating spaces of an individual mythology, as it were, created as constructs of memory of the present - even if their vocabulary comes entirely from the past. Lindner makes use of photography, collage, highly refined cropping techniques, multiple copies, solarisation, tricky exposures and photochemical manipulations. In the age of digital photography and image processing, he has not abandoned these analogue techniques, but has continued to elaborate on them.

»The metamorphoses to which the artist subjects his individual pictures sometimes seem to come from lucid dreams.«

— MATTHIAS FLÜGGE

The Leonhardi-Museum Dresden exhibited three series of Ulrich Lindner's paintings created between 2004 and 2014. "Unrelated" (2004) describes the relationships between objects - or perhaps also the state of the artist's unrelated gaze on them, which is reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky from a distance. "Der vergebliche Ritt" (2008) brings together six photographs of old, partly damaged, wooden horses, which Ulrich Lindner places in dark, gloomy rooms using his own collage and copying technique. The dramatic light makes them appear both as actors and victims of destructive forces. In the artist's most recent work, the twenty "Italian Capricci" (2014), he collages his own photographs of ancient images and buildings, which are reinterpreted both materially and iconographically in the composition.

Matthias Flügge, Rector of the Dresden University of Fine Arts, will speak at the opening on Friday 20 March at 8 pm.

KI generiert: Das Bild zeigt einen leeren Ausstellungsraum in einem Museum oder einer Galerie mit Holzboden, weißen Wänden und mehreren Bildern an den Wänden. In der Mitte des Raums steht eine Sitzbank.

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Ulrich Lindner was born in Dresden in 1938. After graduating from high school and studying chemistry at the TU Dresden, he worked as a photochemist from 1963 to 1982. Since 1983, Lindner has worked as a freelance photographer, illustrator, experimental filmmaker and gardener. Since 1975 he has been represented at 50 exhibitions in Germany and abroad.

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