Exhibitions in Galerie Baer
Vom 04 April, 2009 bis 29 May, 2009
April is the cruelest month, breeding … (T.S.Eliot)
In addition, Stefan Lenke’s fascination with speed, and with the fusion of images and time, gives reason to compare his matte, silver-grey tones with the black-and-white of television or photographic images. We may also see contemporary visual experiences within his blurred and unfocused colour fields, or think of modern techniques of image editing or composition, including pixilated digital surfaces.
Yet these comparisons with technical artificiality also put the warmth and authenticity of painting in general, and of Stefan Lenke’s work in particular, in clear relief. The calm, velvet depth of the pigment-rich paint with its intense shine on the one hand, or its floating, dry colour layers on the other, illustrate palpably the intense work required in applying colour layers. It is easy to see a musical parallel in terminology such as a ‘velvety lower range’ or ‘intensity’. (Birgit Dalbajewa, abstract of a text in catalogue Stefan Lenke: works 2005-2008))