Lothar Götz
Wasserschloss, 2012
£325*
EDITION SIZE: 20 (signed and numbered by the artist, verso)
FINISHING: 12 colour Giclée print, archival ink and acid free lightfast Hahnemühle German etching paper, 310 gsm
DIMENSIONS: 59.4 x 42 cm
*(unframed) plus post and packaging
Barts Health NHS staff recieve a 10% discount on all editions
Lothar Götz was first commissioned by Vital Arts in 2007 to create a billboard and painting entitled Pojagi – to mark the beginning of a major building programme at Barts Health NHS Trust. To celebrate the opening of new The Royal London Hospital in March 2012, Götz curated a unique print series for Vital Arts from the artist’s extensive portfolio of drawings.
Whilst Götz’ practice ranges in scale from site-specific wall paintings and room-sized spatial installations to paintings and drawings, there is a clear coherence and dialogue across his body of work through its continual referencing and engagement with ideas about architecture and space and its characteristic use of abstract geometric forms, fields and lines of intense colour, juxtaposed with one another. His work is informed by real factors of circumstance, site, or the particular inhabitants or histories of a building, space or place, but mixes these factors with further imaginary or fantasy ones. Similarly many of his drawings represent the floor plans of idealized dwellings, sometimes for specific people or historical figures, sometimes for imagined ones. Together they form part of an ongoing series exploring spatial ideas for domestic spaces: apartments, houses, bungalows, villas.
Colour in these drawings is used to denote the functions and atmospheres of rooms, or the situations and qualities of the surrounding landscape – whether a schloss set in a meadow or a bungalow overlooking the sea. It also cues off the identity of the person who is thought to live there, in a web of imaginative factors that continually feed into the geometrical arrangement of forms and the colour decisions for each drawing. Götz sees colour as both beautiful and a key aspect of life that surrounds us, drawing comparison with another passion of his: gardens and flowers.
Whilst Götz often references the creation of a garden or the making of a piece of architecture in his work, he sees his practice as opposite in process to that of architectural design, which concretizes ideas and designs as built form, connecting it rather to the Classical idea of art as active fantasy – something practiced as part of a personal strategy to escape from reality.
Lothar Götz was born in Germany and studied in Aachen, Wuppertal and Düsseldorf before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has exhibited internationally.
Proceeds raised will support The Terrence Higgins Trust and the Vital Arts programme.
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