Ildefonso Aguilar • Dan Hepperle • Lotte Thünker • Allmuth Lenz
ldefonso Aguilar from Lanzarote uses volcanic ash and sand for his paintings. After many layers, he finishes them with an even surface, giving selected areas a coarser texture. Aguilar finds inspiration in the special features of the volcanic islands of Lanzarote and Iceland. Since 1975 he has been represented at numerous exhibitions and fairs in Spain, Germany, Denmark and Portugal. His works are in many private and public collections, as well as museums. Highly regarded in the Canary Islands, in 2018 he had a major solo exhibition in Tenerife at TEA, the largest, most modern cultural building in the Canary Islands.
Dan Hepperle paints with the main colour white, which stands for light, among other things, and thus points to something non-physical, metaphysical. In his studio in the seclusion of a village in the Eifel, he creates endless variations of new moods and sounds of calm and timelessness. His paintings show seemingly little and yet very much. Since 1994 he has been present at numerous exhibitions in Germany and the Netherlands. His works are in many private collections and in public ownership. Born in 1956, the artist is inspired by Zen and plays the shakuhachi flute with great devotion.
Lotte Thünker’s non-figurative sculptures explore the balance between stillness and movement, lightness and mass. She dissolves objects from nature such as birds, shells or sea creatures into the abstract in a fascinating way. Her perfectly crafted sculptures in Carrara marble, petit granite and shell limestone are created in Italy, in the studio she co-founded near Pisa. New to us, she shows her paper collages with a play of surfaces and lines. She has been exhibiting in Germany, Italy, Great Britain and Switzerland since the 90s. Her works are represented in private and public collections in Germany, Holland, Tunisia, Norway, the USA and Hong Kong.
In her lyrical photographic works, Allmuth Lenz relies on techniques that include an unpredictable element. Her photographs with the camera obscura appear abstract and painterly due to the blurred contours and soft light effects. Many of her motifs are taken in wind and storm from a moving ship, images full of longing of “being on the way towards the horizon”. Allmuth Lenz, born in Hamburg in 1958, has been working in Brühl since 1986 and has exhibited regularly in galleries and cultural institutes since 1995. Her photographs are represented in numerous private collections.
