Galerie Daniel Templon presents an exhibition of Ulrich Lamsfuss’ work from May 31 to July 26th, 2007. To accompany the exhibition, the gallery has asked Communic’Art to create a catalogue offering a broad panorama of works produced between 1999 and 2007.

At 36 years old, Ulrich Lasmfuss, a former student of Baselitz, belongs to this new generation of German painters who, such as Neo Rausch, Jonathan Meese or Daniel Richter, have operated a spectacular return to the great tradition of figurative painting.

Obsessed by the notion of originality and intellectual property, Ulrich Lamsfuss paints based on photographs taken from the press, fashion, cinema or advertising.

He uses mass media images and those of contemporary photographers such as Thomas Struth, Fischli and Weiss or Jeff Wall, and reproduces them with accuracy using meticulous touches, as if he were embroidering on fabric.

The artist strips the images of all informational or commercial context in a way to find the subject’s magic and the sensuality of painted surfaces.

“When I talk about decomposing the painting, I think above all at this attitude consisting of recording the slight little
button and, in most cases, to emphasize it by the contrast” explains the artists in an interview with Lara Seidel.

The catalogue and its layout accentuates this approach and the artist’s pictorial technique. In the style of photography (close-ups, studios sophisticated lights, etc.), the artworks’ layout reveals the complexity of the painter’s gesture: the succession of the whole and the detail creates a considerable visual impact on the reader.

This catalogue is distributed by PARIS MUSÉES, in France near 300 bookshops of which 50 specialized laying out an “Art” district. It is also referenced in about forty professional databases of which the Fnac, Amazon and Dilicom, like on websites of sale online. It will be also distributed in Europe, North America and the Middle East.