Ulrich Lamsfuß
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Ulrich Lamsfuß (born 1971, Bonn, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin.
He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including “Somebody Give the Lord a Handclap” at Galerie Daniel Templon [1] in Paris, “The Raw and The Cooked” at Lombard-Freid Fine Arts [2] in New York, “Offensive Malerei” at Lothringer 13 [3] in Munich and “The Triumph of Painting” at the Saatchi Gallery [4] in London. He is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler [5] in Berlin, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts [6] in New York and Daniel Hug Gallery [7] in Los Angeles.
Ulrich Lamsfuß makes pixel-for-pixel oil paint copies of media imagery. His subjects are selected from a variety of sources – magazines, cinema, television, advertising – the only common thread being that the pictures are all culled from the over-saturated world of instantaneous image reproduction. Lamsfuß’ works are painstakingly re-created using old-fashioned pencil grids to map out his compositions, a far cry from the fast moving Photoshop-ed world in which they originated. These discrepancies between techniques of production speak of the ultimate point of Lamsfuß’ project: part of a number of young German artists, including Johannes Kahrs, who are concerned with charting the extremes of a contemporary society haemorrhaging visual information, often without context, Lamsfuß’ paintings are an ironic allegory of high speed image accumulation. Subjects chosen without aesthetic criteria, Lamfuß is simply embracing the ongoing slide toward hyperreality, but giving each image time and attention not normally received, deserving or otherwise.
