"Small suggestions are impulses when I start to paint on a picture, after that painting goes so-and-so its own way. Inspiration is always indirect with me, not direct."
Christoph Luger works with paper. This is attached flat to the wall - tacked - and then worked on: pencil marks become visible, large and small sweeping brushstrokes that apply a liquid glue paint to the picture ground, injuries inflicted by the tearing of the paper or the fragility of the image carrier by the wetness of the paint and overgluing. Layers overlap and, like a delicate curtain, the view opens onto what is underneath, what has gone before. When the artist has finished his work for the time being, the paper is removed from the wall. The fresco - as which it was created - becomes a portable image.
Again and again writings on the works are to be deciphered. Some of the years are written in pencil on the background of the picture as an aid, but it is not the year of origin, because, according to the artist: "I sometimes paint on the works for years, take them in hand again and again and continue to work. A new year is then added somewhere."
Christoph Luger's works are profound. The time that the artist gives his works to emerge is an important factor, which is why the viewer is also encouraged to take time to look at the works, because then reveal all those layers and colors that have painted the wall as a fresco with deliberation and benevolence - a delicate, contemporary form of space Colourfield - Painting.
Christoph Luger lives and works in Vienna
born 1957 in Bregenz, Austria
1976-1981 Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studies at Max Melcher and Josef Mikl
1985 Prize in the art competition «Geist und Form»
Fresco order from Erhard Busek
1990 Otto Mauer Prize for Fine Arts
Working scholarships in Rome, Český Krumlov, Ningbo and Istanbul
Christoph Luger's works can be seen in Vorarlberg at the Seehotel am Kaiserstrand in Lochau, among other places.
His works have found their way into museum collections and are also shown in special themed exhibitions:
2023 Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Carinthia
2022 Eislingen Art Association, Baden-Württemberg
2019 Artists' books, Mezzanin Collection, Schaan
2019 Johanniter Church, Feldkirch (solo exhibition)
2018 Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Carinthia
2017 Art room Engländerbau, Vaduz (solo exhibition)
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Christoph Luger
2 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 bechter kastowsky gallery. SchaanHis support - the paper - is attached directly to the wall with the help of a stapling machine and then worked on by him: Pencil marks, large and small...Read more -
Christoph Luger
12 Nov 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 bechter kastowsky gallery. ViennaFor the first time, bechter kastowsky galerie in Vienna is showing a solo exhibition of selected works by Christoph Luger. Christoph Luger's works on paper are vulnerable, delicate and powerful...Read more
lives and works in Vienna