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Lukas Glinkowski

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In his first comprehensive monograph, Lukas Glinkowski offers an exploration into his unique visual world. His studio paintings remix impressions and encounters from daily life to create rich visual mashups. Drawing on references from art history, comics, and figures, Glinkowski places them against uncommon backdrops like ingrain wallpaper, tiles, or mirrors. His work encourages viewers to reconsider habitual ways of seeing and invites them to configure new contexts themselves. Beyond mere observation, visitors often engage in the painting process, rediscovering their own seemingly familiar surroundings. Rather than offering explanations, Glinkowskiโ€™s art raises thought-provoking questions.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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In his first comprehensive monograph, Lukas Glinkowski opens up insights into his visual world. His studio paintings re-compose impressions and encounters from everyday life, creating a visual mashup: citations from art history, comics, and figures can be found on unusual backgrounds such as ingrain wallpaper, tiles, or mirrors.

Glinkowski creates room to play with habitual ways of seeing and thinking. Viewers can configure contexts by themselves. Still, it does not stop with the process of viewing; visitors are often included in the process of painting and rediscover their own seemingly familiar world. Glinkowski's painting does not attempt to explain, but instead poses many questions.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775750479

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 June 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 138 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Designed by Uta Kopp
  • Text by Christoph Schreier
  • Text by Katja Andreae

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 225.0mm

Height: 285.0mm

Weight: 1120g

Pages: 232

About the Author

LUKAS GLINKOWSKI (*1984, Chelmno, Poland) graduated from the Dusseldorf Art Academy, where he studied under Katharina Grosse. The recipient of many grants and prizes, he has also exhibited a great deal, most recently in museums in Bonn, Chemnitz, and Wiesbaden, at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, and currently at the Berghain in Berlin.

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