NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Horst Lukas in Sensorial Realities. The exhibition opens July 5, 2017 and runs through July 25, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, July 6 from 6-8 pm.
For the past thirty years, Horst Lukas has explored painting, first on his own, then through the guidance of the School of Fine Arts in Kassel, Germany and figurative workshops in Tuscany, Italy. Originally interested in the social commentary of Dalí and Magritte, Lukas embarked on a surrealist path that detoured briefly into a naturalistic phase before his studies in Kassel turned his attention more permanently to abstract expressionism. Painting with oils, Lukas builds layers with a combination of palette knife and brush, coaxing his colors into a flashy interchange of bursts and streaks.
Though naturalism is no longer a focus for Lukas, the natural world frequently enters his work in the form of a bird, a rock, or raging water. As a dedicated conservationist, he feels an obligation to address vital issues through his art, communicating with abstraction and color play. “My whole life as a critical human being was influenced by political and socially critical issues such as environmental degradation and destructive processes in human interaction from loneliness to depression and violence,” Lukas says. “I found ways to express these issues in my artwork.”
Exhibition Dates: July 5 – July 25, 2017
Reception: Thursday, July 6,2017, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Horst_Lukas.aspx
Featured Artists:
Nora Pineda | Caroline Degroiselle | Jiri Maska | Christine Vella | Susan Marx | Mr. Sajja Sajjakul | Natasha Estanga | Horst Lukas | Frank M. Alba | Corinne Garese
About the Exhibition
Sensorial Realities
Agora Gallery's new group exhibition Sensorial Realities offers nine different voyages into new and challenging worlds. Among the paintings, mixed-media works, ceramics, and sculptures included, there are stimulating explorations of landscape, narrative, abstraction, and portraiture. One painter creates outdoor scenes out of a jungle of thick, unbroken brushstrokes that pulse with the loud colors of summer in bloom. Another builds quietly intense psychological scenes out of isolated figures. A third toggles between sensual realism and an abstraction that depends simply on the perspective zooming in and out. With such thoughtful technical experimentation and flawless execution, Sensorial Realities showcases artists operating at their smartest and most provocative level.
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