Art & Artist: Latest
project: „Artists behind bars“
2107-
Installation of 5 over 100
year old prisons doors of Hamburg, Germany
with 40 current and past newspaper reports on carton.
Installation: 20x7 feet, oak on metal stand. Reports: Newspaper on cardboard 15x24 inches
Newspaper reports dealing with artists being imprisoned or accused for political reasons such as Ai
Weiwei or for real crimes
„Eternal chat“
„Art & Artist“
The current projects „Eternal chat“ and „Art & Artist“ are produced by Erika Lehmann and FS Lehmann 2015-2016. Erika Lehmann studied Art in Basel and Paris and is focussed on Graphic Art. FS Lehmann has been trained by Professor Harald Kraemer and is focussed on Concept Art.
The second project is different with respect to its content but uses the same old vintage elements, here mainly of the 30ies and 40ies. In addition, we show photo prints and paintings dealing with the same topic.
„Art &Artist“ deals with the contrast of the marvelous requirements of art and the cumbersome daily life of the artist. Contemporary as well as historical citations about art emphasize, what glorious privilege it is, to create art, what art should evoke, what art is supposed to be. On the other hand, there is the arduous life of most artists, fighting for respect, recognition, possibilities to show their works to the public as well as financial survial, preferably during and not after lifetime.
The core installation of Art & Artist is a monumental 2x 2.5 m big board made of antique glass from 1850 with 150 contemporary and historical quotes about art (e.g. „A work of art is a scream of freedom”, “Artists are the first to see the light”, „Art is a celebration of life”). Around this central board, there are satellite installations with a desparate or ironic attempt of the artist to deal with these glorifications (e.g. 5 dummy heads with a golden handy in their mouth “Art has a voice, let it speak”, or a frightening metallic locker from the 40ies with an old military coat “Art is a celebration of life”, or 3 scruffy pinball machines with roses overdrawn with cement “Art is eternal, life not”).