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Lothar Götz

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Götz has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.

His solo shows have included Gasworks, 2001; the Chisenhale, 2002; and the Economist, 2003 in London; Museum Goch, 2004 and MMKI Düsseldorf, 2005 in Germany; and more recently rahncontemporary in Zürich, 2008 and the Petra Rinck Gallery in Düsseldorf, 2009.

Group shows include: the Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures, Bloomberg SPACE, 2005; David Risley Gallery, London, 2007; mima, Middlesborough, 2007; and shows in Amsterdam; Dublin; Hamburg; Hanover; Salamanca; Wilhelmshaven and Wuppertal since 2005, including participation in the 2008 Prague Triennale. In Spring 2010 he is contributing a major work to an international showcase exhibition on wall-painting at the Miró Foundation in Barcelona.

Public commissions include Platform for Art at Piccadilly Circus underground station in 2007; a collaboration with Caruso St John Architects at the Arts Council England Offices in 2008 and a commission at Haymarket Metro Station, Newcastle in 2009.

He has been on residencies in New York, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and is taking up an Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2010.

Götz completed an MA at the Royal College of Art after studying in Germany at Aachen, Düsseldorf and Wuppertal. He currently lives and works in London and is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland.

Lothar Götz is represented by DOMOBAAL in London, rahncontemporary in Zürich and Petra Rinck Gallery in Düsseldorf.

Whilst Götz’ practice ranges in scale from site-specific wall paintings and room-sized spatial installations to paintings and drawings, there is a clear coherence and dialogue across his body of work through its continual referencing and engagement with ideas about architecture and space and its characteristic use of abstract geometric forms, fields and lines of intense colour, juxtaposed with one another.

His work is informed by real factors of circumstance, site, or the particular inhabitants or histories of a building, space or place, but mixes these factors with further imaginary or fantasy ones. Similarly many of his drawings represent the floor plans of idealized dwellings, sometimes for specific people or historical figures, sometimes for imagined ones. Together they form part of an ongoing series exploring spatial ideas for domestic spaces: apartments, houses, bungalows, villas.

Colour in these drawings is used to denote the functions and atmospheres of rooms, or the situations and qualities of the surrounding landscape – whether a schloss set in a meadow or a bungalow overlooking the sea. It also cues off the identity of the person who is thought to live there, in a web of imaginative factors that continually feed into the geometrical arrangement of forms and the colour decisions for each drawing.

Götz sees colour as both beautiful and a key aspect of life that surrounds us, drawing comparison with another passion of his: gardens and flowers.

Whilst Götz often references the creation of a garden or the making of a piece of architecture in his work, he sees his practice as opposite in process to that of architectural design, which concretizes ideas and designs as built form, connecting it rather to the Classical idea of art as active fantasy - something practiced as part of a personal strategy to escape from reality.

http://www.staedtische-galerie-wolfsburg.de/ausstellungen/lothar-goetz/

http://www.domobaal.com/artists/lothar-goetz-01.html

http://www.rahncontemporary.com

http://www.petrarinckgalerie.de

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/projectsandschemes/artmusicdesign/pfa/artists/lothar_gotz.asp

http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/index.php?id=40

• Schloss Schachen

  10th December — 25th January 2004
  The Economist Plaza 25 St. James's Street, London SW1A 1HG

• ARTfutures 2005

  23rd November — 27th November 2005
  Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD

• ARTfutures 2004

  31st March — 4th April 2004
  City of London School Queen Victoria Street, London EC4