About

A contemporary ‘image junkie’, Lamsfuss’ approach is based on deconstruction through reproduction and repetition, his painting bringing a halt to the relentless, headlong flood of images that marks our era. The artist feels he is moving in the ruins of modernism, with a strong consciousness of the ´horror vacui’ and the power of the 'pictural turn’. Ulrich Lamsfuss works using photographs from a myriad range of sources, including the press, internet, technical publications and art history, which he painstakinglay reproduces in oils. He places all these representations on a stage to …