Leda Luss Luyken

Leda Luss Luyken, born Valata, ( born 1952 in Athens ) is a Greek / American conceptual artist who lives and works in Germany.

Biography

Leda Luss Luyken attended the Ecole d' Humanité in Switzerland and studied art and architecture in Zurich, New York and Manchester. They became especially from the works of Frank Lloyd Wright influenced Mies van der Rohe and Richard Neutra, as well as the Japanese garden architecture. Her professional career began as an interior designer and architectural designer in New York. Since 1983 she works as a concept artist in England, Germany and Greece. She was taught by the painter and sculptor Alfred de Vivanco Luyken.

Work

From 1985 to 1996 she created figurative works, from nudes and torsos to be expressive figurative painting. These works were shown, among other things in two gallery exhibitions in Amsterdam and documented in an art book 1997 ..

Since the mid- 1990s, experimented and Luss Luyken works with ModulArt and thus represents a new concept in contemporary art before. ModulArt are works of art made ​​up of uniform basic elements. The complete work is divided into different, but standardized parts and thus in itself changeable or modulated. She has further developed this technique in the field of painting to its original artistic work idea and created several series of paintings: Millenium (1996-2002); Greek Spirit (2003-2005); Genesis (2006-2008) and 96 % Dark Matter (2008-2010 ) and Cosmos Sensual (2010-2011). Each of these cycles comprises about 20 or more large-sized panels in the 180 dimension: 180 cm and larger. The central idea of work ModulArt is the basic immaturity and constant changeability of the painting, which can be transformed into almost infinite modulation options at any time.

Leda Luss Luyken's ModulArt was publicly demonstrated in museum exhibitions and gallery exhibitions and documented in a catalog, a monograph a collection catalog as well as three films.

Curated museum and art exhibitions

Works in public space

Literature and Movies

  • Breaking the Rules | Break the rules, Edited by Tom Prader, English and German | Zurich | 1997.
  • TryDax, designed and edited by Klaus Walter play, Munich 2000.
  • Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt, ed. by Georg von Kap- herr | English and German | Bobingen, 2008 |
  • Years of travel. Works from the collection Kaske 1970 - 2010 | ed. by Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation of Dagmar and Joachim Kaske and with texts by Anna Wondrak | Munich 2011: pp. 6, 12, 18, 19, 38, 63, 70, 71
  • Παντα ρει: Leda Luss Luyken 's ModulArt | Film TV documentary | 12 '| of 3'30 " film | Berlin | 2004 |
  • ModulArt © LLL, 1'30 " | Roman Luyken | Studio L | London | 2009 |
  • Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt | TV feature of Peider Defilla | BRα - ARD | 15 ' | 2011 |
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