Lienhard von Monkiewitsch

Exhibition 15 February (extended) until 10 May 2015
Opening hours Wed-Sa: 15-18 h, Sun: 11-18 h / u.n.V.
Guided tours on Sundays, 11.30 a.m.

Squares, triangles, or parallelograms in yellow, red, or black: strictly geometric forms and monochrome color surfaces are Lienhard von Monkiewitsch's instruments with which the 1941-born painter, graphic artist, and object artist creates illusions of space, of apparent three-dimensionality and transparency in his paintings. Von Monkiewitsch's works play with perception and viewing habitsof the observer. For what at first appears as a convincing spatial perspective or plastic body quickly turns out to be a perfectly constructed composition on a two-dimensional surface.Inspired by Minimal Art and Constructivism, von Monkiewitsch, with his strongly reduced formal language, is in search of a way to create an ultimate aesthetic only through forms and colour - generated by measure, number and symmetry. His latest works, including furniture sculptures, play with trompel'oeil and illusionism. The Kunstverein is also presenting the series "Kunstkritische Bibliothek" (Art Critical Library), edited by Walter Vitt, which has meanwhile been published in 24 volumes and for which von Monkiewitsch has designed the titles. http://www.aica.de/publikationen/schriften-zur-kunstkritik/index.html#753001a26912dc42e

Lienhard von Monkiewitsch (*1941) studied from 1964 to 1969 in Braunschweig at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. 1969/70 DAAD scholarship Paris. 1970 Lower Saxony Promotion Prize. 1979 Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome. 1986 Lower Saxony Artist Scholarship. 2005 German Critics' Prize in the field of fine arts. 1980 to 2006 Professor of Painting at the Braunschweig College of Fine Arts (HBK). Monkiewitsch lives and works in Braunschweig and Sardinia.

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Supported by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, City of Neuenhaus