Fabulous creatures on dry legs
A woman starts her chainsaw, cuts into dead wood, and the result is the fragile mythical creatures that currently surround the viewer in the gallery Kramer.
Set on arid, stilt-like bones of a branch, the roots “formed”to the body, the surrealistically appearing birdlike figures look down on him.
Threatening, bored, or protective?
It’s in the eye of the beholder alone.
For the sculptor Gabriele von Lutzau, who lives in Frankfurt and Michelsadt, these are more or less abstract “signs of life”, which arose from economically useless thujas, i. e. from trees of life, to which she has taken their original form and given a new, almost living one through transformation.
The wooden work of the fifty-year-old artist, who has been working as a freelance artist since 1995, revolves around this “lust for the new” as well as the exhibition’s name, transience and origin.
Gabriele von Lutzaus is not interested in making wood visible as a material.
In the working process, it consciously absorbs the structure and shape of the tree, but after processing, the wooden surface is usually blackened.
Less creepy than the bird spirits, but neither does Gabriele von Lutau’s “Guardian”appear of this world.
Reduced female torsi grow out of narrow shafts, ending in “feathered” wings – angelic, well-proportioned women’s bodies, all of which emerged from the skillful use of a tool that is seldom associated with delicate art, and even more rarely with women.
The third group of works on display shows less narrative, purely abstract objects.
Dynamic wave or flame structures, which are criss-crossed by deep channels and bundle at one point, which thematize the “visualization of the wind”.
These are among the strongest works, especially when they leave the sometimes too much effort for aesthetics.
Gabriele von Lutau’s works can be seen at Galerie Kramer, Vor dem Steintor 46 until Sunday, June 20.
The rooms are open Wednesday to Friday from 4 pm to 6 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm.
The finissage begins on Sunday, 20 June at 11 am and ends at 3 pm.
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