06Shaping dialogue
Portrait of the We-Art artist: Gabriele von Lutzau designs with the
Chainsaw filigree wood sculptures. The lime tree has already achieved some fame at the pottery market (by simply overturning a few months ago). Gabriele von Lutzau is now preparing a second career for the decaying tree, for Gabriele von Lutzau is creating a sculpture from it as part of the art project We Art at Haus Rosental.
by Britt MANDLER
Shaping dialogue
Portrait of the We-Art artist: Gabriele von Lutzau designs with the
Chainsaw filigree wood sculptures. The lime tree has already achieved some fame at the pottery market (by simply overturning a few months ago). Gabriele von Lutzau is now preparing a second career for the decaying tree, for Gabriele von Lutzau is creating a sculpture from it as part of the art project We Art at Haus Rosental.
by Britt MANDLER
BAD LANGSALZA.
A stump, followed by a long root (it’s all),
which, after a few months of interim storage, will allow the stately
Pottery market lime tree is left over. She was (even for experts
completely surprisingly (just fell over last year. Now the sculptor Gabriele von Lutzau breathes new life into the dead wood.
When she works, people usually look closely at her.
The Odenwald girl doesn’t work with hammer and chisel, but with the chainsaw.
Gabriele von Lutzau admits that she was not completely shy at first. When she completed her training as a sculptor, she only took the saw into her hand to cut suitable pieces for her sculptures.
Sometimes the professor would go too slow, so he would take over her work.
But then fate intervened: the artist was no longer able to strain her wrist as much after a car accident as before. Whether she wanted to or not, she depended on the chainsaw.
And that spurred her on, the Hessian says with a laugh. Doesn’t happen in her vocabulary after all. It took some time to learn how to use the saw correctly, but then I got really good, she laughs.
Art lovers also saw it that way.
Her sculptures decorate many entrance areas of large institutions, but private collectors also demand the Lutzau works.
Those who are good at business are always asked to see young artists.
This is also the way Gabriele von Lutzau works. Most of the time she refuses, but sometimes curiosity wins.
For example, in the case of Maren Krings, the organizer of the art project We Art at Haus Rosental.
The District Administrator of the Odenwald district asked Gabriele von Lutzau to exhibit the exhibition of the election Tall Inn Saltcaid.
And this one was impressed. A contact was quickly established and a joint exhibition in Frankfurt am Main followed. When the invitation came to Haus Rosental, Gabriele von Lutzau naturally agreed to (although she could not spend the complete four weeks in the spa town.
The artist, however, is a cheerful and cheerful person, who can fit in well with groups and can also work quickly.
She had the chainsaws in her luggage, the leftovers of the lime tree had already been delivered. The tight schedule did not get out of hand as a result.
The sculpture will find its place in one of the planked rooms, underneath the bird’s ceiling painting, which in the Rosental valley everyone jokingly calls only the broiler.
The root floats in the room, giving the impression that it is growing up, vaulting towards the bird on the ceiling.
With her saw, the artist helps the deadwood to take on a new shape without violating its original form. Certain structures are reinforced by targeted saw lines. Other, overloaded windings must give way. Gabriele von Lutzau calls this procedure reduction to the essentials “. The sculptor says that her works are not, however, as a rule completely planned. Of course she has a certain idea in mind.
But working with wood is something very emotional.
The material speaks to her, so to speak (structure and forms emerge from this dialogue, which have their own message. This is what people who watch her work recognize.
Even if there were already critics who feared the quiet running chainsaw around the house of Rosental for their peace and quiet.
caption:
Use: The artist uses a chain saw to create fine structures from the wood.
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