The new figure of the effervescent “Leipzig school”, Jörg Lozek, exhibits for the first time in France at Galerie Daniel Templon. For this occasion, the gallery has entrusted Communic’Art with the creation of a catalogue.

With Im Zimmer (In the bedroom), Jörg Lozek presents a series of large interior paintings in between construction and deconstruction.

Taking as a starting point archive photographs from the First World War, he composes ambiguous rooms where heterogeneous furniture and objects accumulate.

Accesories, details, tapestries and floors are depicted with a complex combination of oil painting and drawing, resulting in paintings which are in between sketch, architectural study and baroque fresco.

Jörg Lozek sets up in his “rooms” a recurring solitary character, with hidden features, both childish and grown-up’s.

As the artist explains “he must accomplish simple acts that do not bring-up additional questions. His attention is focused inward. He is totally self-centered”. His attitudes determine the paintings’ titles : Waiting (Warten), Search (Forschung).

“Jörg Lozek’s pictures meet our desire for painting in a manner that is full of curiosity, subversive and reflective. His paintings bear witness to the quest for creating an identity, for disorder and non-places, of garrets and rooms evoking memory,” writes Oliver Kornhoff in the catalogue.

Born in 1971 in ex GDR and a student of Neo Rausch, Jörg Lozek belongs with his friends David Schnell, Tim Eitel or Mattthias Weischer to the new Leipzig art scene which emerged in the early year 2000.

Often interested by history, architecture and the reconsideration of the socialist esthetics, these artists have operated a spectacular return to figurative painting.

This first monography offers an intimate view on Jörg Lozek’s works and allows to discover his meticulous and detailed paintings.

This catalogue is distributed by le Comptoir des Indépendants in 300 bookstores in France, including 50 specialized
with an Art section.

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