Dirk Lange
Dirk Lange
Escapism and nostalgia in all its divergent facets are central for Dirk Lange's work. All his drawings and Collages feature human figures seemingly emerging from a multitude of stacked ornaments and designs. The onlooker never can make eye contact with these - often - faceless beings. Their presence oscillates between the lifelessness of a piece of jewelry, of a trophy, or of a specimen from the laboratory. This lifelessness emanates an almost religious distance and an ambivalent power and autonomy.
Lange's technique is derived from and influenced by scientific illustrations, by techniques used in altar depictions, costume design, as well as by techniques used in weaving. His subjects seem to be lost in outer space and in their own universes. They become surfaces, literally and abstractly, due to their quality of depicting over the top daydreams, extreme narcissism and gnostic world denial.
2001 diploma at Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Maastricht (NL)
lives in Dresden
exhibitions
2006 New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled, Kunsthaus Dresden (group)
2006 Tristesse Deluxe, Berlin (group)
2006 PartyArty Gallery, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin (group)
2006 Uneingelöste Versprechen - Stellungen und Positionen, Motorenhalle Dresden (group)
2006 The Truth Tut Gut, Montgomery Berlin (group)
2006 Wildes Kapital/Wild Capital, Kunsthaus Dresden (group)
2005 Follow Your Dreams, presentation of Mooste Guest Studio, Tallinn Art Hall (EST) (group)
2005 Nero’s All-You-Can-Eat, Plein, Berlin (single)
2005 Paradies Kontrolle, rONIN Exhibition Project 2005, Nürnberg (single)
2005 Emergenzy Room, Kunsthaus Dresden (part of exhibition »Stabile Seitenlage«) (group)
2005 Let’s go Lanke group exhibition of Dresden Artists, Schloss Lanke near Berlin (group)
2004 Öötöö - Nachtarbeit, Tartu University (EST) (group)
2003 PartyArty Vol. 1, Lovelite, Berlin (single)
2003 Höxter vs. Grossstadt in: Bruxismus, Blitzgalerie, Dresden (group)
Cd on Novantiqua:
- Hands Up