Roman Lang – ELEVATORESK 2021
Lutfridstrasse 7, 53121 Bonn
art and living #15
As part of the "kunstundwohnen" series, MIWO commissioned the artist Roman Lang to design the stairwell at Lutfridstraße No. 7. The artist has opted for an impressive, colourful, illusionistic wall painting that clearly borrows from Op Art and, like Op Art, “pretends” spatial structures through painting alone.
For his interior design in Bonn, Roman Lang is planning colored rectangular bodies that protrude diagonally from the wall to the front or
seem to collar upwards. This spatial effect is most evident when ascending or descending in the
Show the staircase and thus record the movements of the residents. The color palette moves between muted blue and orange tones, light turquoise and green as well as violet and red fields. Wall and ceiling are from the painting
truncated, as if this would continue beyond the limits of the architecture of the stairwell. The artist wants this
Do the design yourself in early 2021 and will be supported by a painting company.
This spatiality achieved through painting as an element of Op Art was en vogue in the 1960s. As an important trend in modern painting, it in turn refers to the non-representational, i.e. abstract painting of the early 20th century. First and foremost, Kasimir Malevich should be mentioned here with his famous black square as one of the first non-representational paintings and his theory of Suprematism.
In his other artistic works - wall installations, wall drawings and wall reliefs - Lang's desire for space-forming concepts or their illusion and the deconstruction of various collage-like constructs prevails. Lang achieves this with a skilful interplay of a wide variety of elements such as wood and multiplex panels, structures and surfaces.
In view of this, one can be very curious to see what (spatial) effect the latest work in Lutfridstraße will have.
Roman Lang (born 1976 in Neumarkt/Upper Palatinate) studied with Ben Willikens at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung. Lang has participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions; he lives and works in Düsseldorf and Bonn.
Text: Beate Eckstein
Photographer: Mareike Tocha, Cologne
