AW Luxembourg Art Week 2023: Panzer. Luser. Kuck

What Panzer and Luser have in common is an intense preoccupation with line and space; both use wire and brass, respectively, for their objects, both "draw in space, so to speak," and yet, according to Constantin Luser (*1976): "The material, the working process, and the objects are as different as two handwritings that write different letters." 

This commonality and, as it were, this divergence is what makes the exhibition so appealing. While Fritz Panzer (*1945) transforms everyday objects into his translucent objects, Constantin Luser creates imaginative figures - strange entities that float in space and move and turn depending on the gust of wind. This creates an omnidirectional effect, presenting a seemingly new work with each angle of view.

The booth at the art fair becomes a playing field for the two artists. Between these different objects, Luser's mobile filigree works hang from the ceiling.The works of Panzer are realized by means of black wire in graphic tautness, Luser uses here brass, polished and smooth.A sculpture by Jan Kuck (*1978), cast from concrete, serves as a counterpart - which cancels out the lightness of the two Austrian positions. Cast bottles combined with a liquid soap dispenser made from solid soap - the sculpture is massive, physically as well as intellectually, as the proliferation of microplastics in our world, the pollution of water, is thematically addressed here. "SOAP", is the title of this sculpture.