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