Performance

Lothar Hempel

BornNationalityBased In
1966GermanBerlin
Biography

Lothar Hempel was born in 1966 in Cologne where he lives and works. He draws his inspiration from German history as well as from Californian New-Wave, Greek tragedy, pagan culture, music and cinema. His interest doesn’t reside in references as such: taking images for what they are or for what they convey in contemporary western culture is not his main concern. Rather, he seeks a re-appropriation akin to a way of seizing reality to make it circulate in his universe. His works are densely emotional, and instead of relinquishing themselves from the start in the form of a concept, they make us face lost or forgotten memories which we feel we could recover from one second to the other, thus engendering a multiplicity of individual interpretative possibilities and creating paths between dream and reality. Lothar Hempel creates a cosmogony – complete with characters, objects and environment – in which verbal and visual intermingle and by which previously distinct media clash in an almost violent way. ...

Selected Artworks
Performance
Lothar HempelPerformance, 2015
33.02 x 33.02 x 8.26cm
Plakat (small town boy)
Clairevoyanx
Lothar HempelClairevoyanx, 2016
259 x 259 x 10cm
Plakat (Fantastic Man)
Interior (Dragon)
Balance
Lothar HempelBalance, 2009
125 x 125cm
The Mirror
Russian Hill
Lothar HempelRussian Hill, 2001
36 x 40 x 8cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Athens Biennale2009 - Athens
Gwangju Biennial2008 - Gwangju
Venice Biennial1993 - Venice
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