Christoph Luger Austria, b. 1957

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.