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Lorenz was born in Brandenburg province, south east of Berlin in 1933 but
before he was two years old his family moved to Hanover where the young
Lorenz grew up. During his teens Lorenz
showed an aptitude for mathematics but after attending Life drawing classes
at the Meisterschule Hannover he decided that he wanted to become a painter. Lorenz had his
first solo exhibition in Copenhagen in 1959, followed by one at Gallery
Mouffe in Paris in 1963 (a review of which can be found at the bottom of this
page). Since settling in England he has had several exhibitions but has
preferred to source his own collectors, of which there are many around the
world. Like many
artists that I admire, Lorenz has had no significant formal art training and
so his work comes from no particular artistic school or movement.
Understandably his work does show influences of 20th century Modernism but is
very much his own. As the artist, Harald Smykla, comments when writing a
critique of Lorenz’s work, “Unhindered by restrictions of instituted,
prescribed modes of practice, the freedom of his sheer creative joyfulness is
in evidence throughout.” Below are a few of the works by Lorenz
currently available at the Harlequin Gallery. |
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A review of Lorenz’s exhibition at Gallery
Mouffe, Paris from “La Nouvelle Revue
Francaise” – May 1963 Petits miroirs faisandés à mi-chemin entre le
rêve et la peinture, Lorenz propose une vision plutôt que des objets. Aube,
eau, à chaque œuvre il donne sa densité : les bleus dominent. Et le sortilège
opère, l’œil se retrouve captif d’un espace où les êtres hésitent, rampent,
flottent, s’agglutinent et parfois, se métamorphosent. La mise en page évite
tout enracinement : ces larves, méduses ou hippocampes, flammèches, fouets à
l’éclat d’un rouge boréal, on les sent occupés à quelque fête somnambulique,
célébration toute allusive. |
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