On the occasion of the exhibition “Neolithic Stories” at Projektraum Rochade Karlsruhe, Lukas Giesler and Helene Kummer are blurring the borders between reality and fiction just as much as between description and enactment. The main characters of both works are objects, if made of plastic or clay, being represented and portrayed by contemporary as well as archaic means of media.
In addition to their individual works, the two artists collaborated on a photolithographic print edition titled “Über Nichtgestein” which translates to “About Non-Rocks”. The object forming the center of this investigative process, has never existed in a three dimensional state. It is assembled by several 3D-objects and scans of rocks downloaded from the web database Thingiverse.com and which were then textured and rendered. This fugitive and immaterial process contrasts the slow practice of photolithography, the oldest planographic printing process which uses lithographic stones that are rendered light sensible and subsequently exposed and developed.
Lukas Giesler, Clay Blanks:
Photoalgraphy Prints 150x210cm
Helene Kummer, Future Fossils:
Renders, Projected animations, Slipcasted ceramics, Plaster moulds, Found fragments
Lukas Giesler and Helene Kummer, Über Nichtgestein:
Photolithographic Print Edition, Four-piece
On the occasion of the exhibition “Neolithic Stories” at Projektraum Rochade Karlsruhe, Lukas Giesler and Helene Kummer are blurring the borders between reality and fiction just as much as between description and enactment. The main characters of both works are objects, if made of plastic or clay, being represented and portrayed by contemporary as well as archaic means of media.
In addition to their individual works, the two artists collaborated on a photolithographic print edition titled “Über Nichtgestein” which translates to “About Non-Rocks”. The object forming the center of this investigative process, has never existed in a three dimensional state. It is assembled by several 3D-objects and scans of rocks downloaded from the web database Thingiverse.com and which were then textured and rendered. This fugitive and immaterial process contrasts the slow practice of photolithography, the oldest planographic printing process which uses lithographic stones that are rendered light sensible and subsequently exposed and developed.
Lukas Giesler, Clay Blanks:
Photoalgraphy Prints 150x210cm
Helene Kummer, Future Fossils:
Renders, Projected animations, Slipcasted ceramics, Plaster moulds, Found fragments
Lukas Giesler and Helene Kummer, Über Nichtgestein:
Photolithographic Print Edition, Four-piece