{"id":1119,"date":"2026-02-17T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lydianelutz.de\/texts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:02:56","slug":"texts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lydianelutz.de\/en\/texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”5″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”193015″ row_name=”Artiststatement”][vc_column column_width_percent=”90″ position_horizontal=”left” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”5\/6″ uncode_shortcode_id=”112824″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”h3″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”174229″]Artist Statement[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_separator sep_color=”color-jevc” uncode_shortcode_id=”160502″ sep_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”147012″]My focus is painting. Using pigments and acrylics, mostly on canvas, I explore fundamental themes of life and social coexistence. I am particularly interested in processes of letting go, being held, and trust. The element of water serves as both inspiration and metaphor. It takes courage to venture into open waters\u2014into the unknown. Jumping into the water, diving in, submerging. Being enveloped by water means feeling free and uplifted. <\/p>\n

Glazing and impasto paint application, as well as vibrant and delicate colors, alternate to create a field of tension between tenderness and strength, intensity and lightness. Realistic moments are accompanied by abstract, emotional fields of color. <\/p>\n

With my paintings, I would like to invite you to pause. They are intended to allow hopeful thoughts and encourage you to broaden your perspective. My goal is to create connections through my work and to change the way we relate to one another. <\/p>\n

Lydiane Lutz[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”5″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”412774″ row_name=”Autorentexte”][vc_column column_width_percent=”90″ position_horizontal=”left” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”5\/6″ uncode_shortcode_id=”112824″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”h3″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”946759″]External Reflections[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_separator sep_color=”color-jevc” uncode_shortcode_id=”160502″ sep_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_font=”font-636240″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”171773″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette” text_color_solid=”#ff0000″ subheading=”On the work of Lydiane Lutz
\nIlona Keilich, gallerist, EXOgallery, Stuttgart 2026″]Longing[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”415810″]Longing is a quiet yet persistent state. It is not necessarily directed toward a specific goal; rather, it describes an inner desire\u2014for lightness, for being held, for a place where one can entrust oneself to the flow of life.
\nIn her artistic work, Lydiane Lutz has approached this state for many years with remarkable consistency and sensitivity. <\/p>\n

At the center of her painting are people in water. They drift, are held, lose their weight. Water is not only a motif, but a fundamental condition: it stands for relationship, for transition, for letting go of control. As a woman and as an artist, Lutz explores what it means to be carried\u2014through life, in interpersonal connections, in one\u2019s own body. Her figures do not seem to struggle, but to trust. <\/p>\n

Formally, the works move between Impressionism, Expressionism, and abstraction. The canvases often remain deliberately open, not filled to the very last centimeter. These open spaces are not voids, but invitations: to one\u2019s own imagination, to meditation, to losing oneself in the image. Longing arises precisely where something is not fixed. <\/p>\n

Technically, too, Lutz follows this principle. Pigments in intense, powerful colors dissolve in water, flow into one another, elude complete control, and create a watercolor-like transparency. The image emerges from the interplay of intention and chance\u2014a process that reflects the act of drifting itself. <\/p>\n

In her latest series, presented for the first time, the artist takes a consistent step further. The classic canvas is replaced by transparent acrylic glass. The works consist of multiple layers that are spatially separated from one another. The spaces in between\u2014air, distance, permeability\u2014become the main protagonists. Perspective is no longer fixed, but depends on the viewer\u2019s position. Proximity and distance, freedom and connection shift with every movement. <\/p>\n

These works pose questions: What do we truly long for? What drives us? What fulfills us? What ultimately makes us human? In a time of artificial intelligence, automation, and a flood of fast-moving images, this slow, physical, breathing painting gains particular relevance. It calls for presence instead of pressing on, sensation instead of efficiency. <\/p>\n

Lydiane Lutz\u2019s works remind us that longing is not a lack, but a force. A movement toward the open, the indeterminate\u2014and thus toward ourselves.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”5″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”774959″ row_name=”Die Kuenstlerin”][vc_column column_width_percent=”90″ position_horizontal=”left” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”5\/6″ uncode_shortcode_id=”112824″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_font=”font-636240″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”882130″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette” text_color_solid=”#ff0000″ subheading=”On the works of Lydiane Lutz
\nA text by Dr. Theresa Gatarski, art historian, Munich 2023″]Uplifting[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”185768″]Uplifting\u2014this is the most fitting way to describe Lydiane Lutz\u2019s work. The artist works with an interplay of impasto and glazed areas of color. The motifs shift between impressionistically rendered figurative elements and expressive abstraction. A powerful energy emanates from the rich, luminous palette. <\/p>\n

Lydiane Lutz\u2019s approach to painting is elemental. Her brushwork reveals her joy in color. Stylistically, the artist follows in the footsteps of the great masters of color such as John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot. In their sketch-like quality, at times extending into abstraction, her works recall Monet\u2019s late water-lily paintings. The often French titles of her works are a homage to the artist\u2019s French roots. <\/p>\n

The play with different textures\u2014sometimes glazed, sometimes impasto\u2014creates high-contrast surfaces with a sensual impact. Empty spaces and open areas stimulate the imagination. In this way, atmospheric pictorial spaces emerge that invite the viewer to fully engage with the painting and immerse themselves in it. <\/p>\n

A recurring leitmotif is water\u2014an element that unites opposites: softness and hardness, lightness and density, intimacy and sublimity. Depictions of bodies swimming and floating in water convey weightlessness and a sense of being held. The figures invite empathetic identification. One could describe Lydiane Lutz\u2019s painting as a kind of romantic Expressionism, as it is concerned with expressing intense inner emotions. <\/p>\n

The bubbling floods of color evoke memories of swimming in open waters: cold and warm currents, the ambivalence between feelings of happiness and awe of the unknown depths and the power of the element. Lydiane Lutz\u2019s painting opens up spaces of longing that convey freedom and playful lightness. In this way, she succeeds in evoking multilayered experiences and bringing metaphors to life.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”5″ top_padding=”3″ bottom_padding=”5″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”147220″ row_name=”Die Kuenstlerin”][vc_column column_width_percent=”90″ position_horizontal=”left” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”5\/6″ uncode_shortcode_id=”112824″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_font=”font-636240″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”150731″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette” text_color_solid=”#ff0000″ subheading=”On the painting of Lydiane Lutz
\nA text by Christoph Hessel, graphic designer, Munich 2023″]A bigger splash[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_empty_space empty_h=”1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”481799″]\u201cA Bigger Splash\u201d is the title of one of the Californian paintings from 1967 by the British pop artist David Hockney. The motif of water\u2014of a wave, a swell, a waterfall, or indeed a splash\u2014is a particular painterly challenge, like a cloud, because it cannot be grasped, or not solely, with the eye; no sooner is it seen than it is already gone. The painter therefore has to come up with something in order to capture a still, planar counterpart of this motif on canvas. The pop painter did not merely freeze the \u201csplash\u201d; he stylized it into an ornate ornament. Lydiane Lutz proceeds quite differently. At first glance, one might think one is witnessing the explosion of a Monet water-lily painting\u2014if it were not for the people, children as well as adults. We see them from behind, as in German Romanticism, and in the act of leisure; they swim away and draw the viewer in with them. <\/p>\n

This painting is immensely dynamic and very elegant. The sweep of the brush is not only expertly placed; it is not an informal pouring or blotting of paint, but a linearly guided composition of patches. A James McNeill Whistler or a Singer Sargent would have taken pleasure in it as well. The pink bikinis contrast beautifully, in complementary fashion, with the cool greenish-blue waves. And the interplay between the more photographically rendered figures and the splashes around them also \u201cworks\u201d in the academic sense: the proportions are right, and neither too much of one\u2014the splashes\u2014nor too little of the other\u2014the figures\u2014has been depicted. It is difficult to hit that exact register. Lydiane Lutz does so with precision. <\/p>\n

She paints summer pictures that lift the spirits; they are certainly also family pictures, in which the child of color is included as well, making them, as biographical motifs, a credible representation of a positive and responsible attitude to life. How urgently one needs such artistic motivation amid all the daily reports of dystopias!<\/p>\n

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\nIssue No. 108, March\u2013April 2026″]kunst:art[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_button size=”btn-sm” border_width=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”965235″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Flydianelutz.de%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F03%2FLydianeLutz-Presse-kunst_art-ka108_Seite_24_S.pdf|target:_blank|”]Article as PDF[\/vc_button][vc_empty_space empty_h=”3″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”p” text_font=”font-636240″ text_weight=”400″ uncode_shortcode_id=”962968″ text_color_type=”uncode-palette” text_color_solid=”#ff0000″ subheading=”\u201cAudience Award goes to two winners\u201d
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