{"id":3208,"date":"2024-10-10T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hengesbach-gallery.com\/lennart-martin\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T09:36:16","slug":"lennart-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hengesbach-gallery.com\/en\/lennart-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lennart Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lennart Martin<\/h2>\n\n\n

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Lennart Martin has developed a tool within painting that brings latent tensions and underlying aspects of today\u2019s media-produced self-representations of people to the surface\u2014where they explode. The motifs may be taken from pop culture or from film stills. Martin does not paint his subjects using projection, but by freely redrawing them. He begins by focusing purely on light values, then adds color in a second step. The color divides the pictorial field into intense zones that sharply contrast with one another, transforming the image into something like a backlit screen, reminiscent of a laptop display. These color zones interrupt original connections, while simultaneously intensifying coherence within each zone. In the overall view of the painting, a number of antagonistically charged actors emerge, pulling the ground out from under the viewer\u2019s feet and drawing us into a virtual realm in which not only the present, but also references to motifs from the past, begin to unfold. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Works<\/p>\n\n

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Kendall<\/em>, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 150 x 240 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Billie<\/em>, 2022, Oil on Canvas, 240 x 180 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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M\u00e1ria<\/em>, 2023, oil on canvas, 140 x 180 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Nietzsche<\/em>, 2023, oil on canvas, framed, 32 x 23 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Biography<\/p>\n\n

Born in 1996 in Witten (Germany)2016\u20132024 Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, class of Eberhard Havekost and Tomma Abts (Summer 2024)Lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf (Germany)<\/p>\n\n

Group-Exhibitions<\/p>\n\n

2024 \u201eMENETEKEL\u201c, Hengesbach Gallery, Wuppertal (D)2023 \u201eA Shame\u201c, Kunst im Hafen \u2013 250 Jahre Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf (D), \u201ea b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z \u00e4 \u00f6 \u00fc. Ein R\u00fchrst\u00fcck in mehreren Bildern.\u201c, Studio for artistic research, D\u00fcsseldorf (D)2019 \u201ezweiklassen\u201c, Tapetenwerk Leipzig (D)<\/p>\n\n

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