New Season Matthew Lutz-Kinoy SILBERKUPPE/ Dominic Eichler & Michel Ziegler/ Skalitzer Strasse 68 10997 Berlin, DE by craniv boyd.

New Season Matthew Lutz-Kinoy SILBERKUPPE/ Dominic Eichler & Michel Ziegler/ Skalitzer Strasse 68 10997 Berlin, DE by craniv boyd.

 

 

A refreshing springtime work on canvass is about to come down, it is still for the moment big and colorful, riotous tempera and Acrylic paint on nude canvass, the work hangs in SILBERKUPPE on Skalitzer Straße in Kreuzberg. Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, an American born artist is the author of this work titled Prospekt A, a German Language term used in stage and scenic design.

 

The work is generous in both palette and scale at 645cm x 288cm x 130 cm it is large format. If paintings could be said to have flavors than Prospekt A, would taste of some of the female masters of the so called New York School of painting such as Helen Frakenthaler or American ex-patriot Joan Mitchell whose difficult abstract paintings from the fifties were made in Paris, the late Hungarian born yet Paris based Michel Hantaï is also an artist who created with bright color fields and bare cotton duck, tying off and turning abstraction or non representation into a method as if one possible rational outgrowth of abstract expressionism would be a kind of rarefied Batik. These could be the close cohabitants of a flavor spectrum of non representational painting.

 

A work on canvass that is concurrently capable of including installation art in its fold, the painting is on a system of supports, yet the support is dynamic possessing a novel approach to the site of SILBERKUPPE. A rectangular structurally supportive column in the narrow corridor makes its impression not quite bifurcating the length of canvass what is essentially an awkward space is elegantly addressed by a canvas that behaves as an installation taking into account architectonic givens in the installation space. The receptive and malleable nature of the shape of the canvass could be perceived as wry or clever, yet some how the local color Mathew Lutz-Kinoy has provided in gestural big brushed abstraction is more transcendent than punning. Still the title of the work and the format that of extra Extra large do provide some cues as to how a work of art can look and behave on the theatre of an opening evening. by craniv boyd.