About

Ulrich Lamsfuss, an appropriation artist who deliberately blurs the line between painting and photography, reproduces in his paintings images found in a wide variety of media such as National Geographic, travel and fashion magazines, cookbooks or art related publications.
Working his way across a feint pencil grid with a meticulous precision, his paintings contrast the sources on which they are based, momentary snapshots captured in a fraction of a second.
The glossy photographic surface is replaced by a sensuous painted structure that stresses the contrasts, thus creating a theatrical …