In her colored pencil drawings, Theresa Lükenwerk (b. 1962) explores the relationship of abstract color values to figurative motifs on the picture surface. She often chooses images from diving or travel magazines as her point of departure. The detail she has selected, often showing only body parts, is resolved into four printing colors (red, blue, yellow, black) and then rastered on the computer, i.e. broken up into its basic visual components. On the light table, she then uses templates to put the raster points for the individual colors together again on drawing paper in order to reconstruct the original motif, a time-consuming process.
Here, Lükenwerk has closed in so tightly on diverse pictures of beach balls with sunlight glinting off them that they disintegrate into simple points, into pixels. But she takes this even further - one might even think she had drawn near to sunlight itself, after which the whole picture dissolved into an agglomeration of scintillating points of color.

Authors: Knut Ebeling
Artists: Theresa Lükenwerk

Softcover
30 x 24 cm
64 pages
ca. 125 color illustrations

German/English
available soon
ISBN 978-3-939583-16-5
24,80 Euro
2007