For the opening of the exhibition "Ludwig Rauch, Kubiak & Rauch: Von wundersamen Wesen und Landschaften" on June 15, 2024 at the BLMK, we met with Ludwig Rauch and talked to him about the current exhibition, his career as an artist and his artistic practice.
Beginning with the experimental photographic works of Kubiak & Rauch, who worked as an artist duo for more than 10 years from the early 1990s alongside their careers as individual artists, the exhibition spans an arc to current pictures by Ludwig Rauch. Kubiak & Rauch, that is Johannes Ulrich Kubiak (b. 1961 Annaberg-Buchholz, lives and works in Berlin) and Ludwig Rauch (b. 1960 Leipzig, lives and works in Berlin) developed layering and montage processes with photographic raw material, which initially enabled unlimited variability in the development of motifs and thus led to a pictorial form that led to a graphic and photographic impression with painting principles. The photographic source material was transformed into a form of light painting whose depth effect could not have been achieved with conventional techniques of image production.
https://hearthis.at/radiowoltersdorf/240615-blmk-ludwig-rauch/
BMLK
Kubiak & Rauch, that is Johannes Ulrich Kubiak (born 1961 Annaberg-Buchholz, lives and works in Berlin) and Ludwig Rauch (born 1960 Leipzig, lives and works in Berlin) developed layering and montage processes with photographic raw material, which initially enabled unlimited variability in the development of motifs and thus led to an image form that ranged between graphic and photographic appearance with painting principles. The photographic source material was transformed into a form of light painting whose depth effect could not have been achieved using conventional image production techniques.
Although the images by Kubiak & Rauch as well as the current works by Ludwig Rauch can technically be attributed to photography, the image concepts of the artist duo as well as the individual artist Ludwig Rauch are profoundly located in painting in their aesthetic formulations. Motifs and subjects from different subject areas are combined to create a kind of playful surrealism with a sometimes baroque appearance. The reference to classical art and visual history is not only evident iconographically, but the repertoire of content also alludes to the major, fundamental human questions of history: nature, architecture and the human body (as well as their connection as the basis of human existence).
https://www.blmk.de/programm/ludwig-rauch-kubiak-rauch-von-wundersamen-wesen-und-landschaften/
Beginning with the experimental photographic works of Kubiak & Rauch, who worked as an artist duo for more than 10 years from the early 1990s alongside their careers as individual artists, the exhibition spans an arc to current pictures by Ludwig Rauch. Kubiak & Rauch, that is Johannes Ulrich Kubiak (b. 1961 Annaberg-Buchholz, lives and works in Berlin) and Ludwig Rauch (b. 1960 Leipzig, lives and works in Berlin) developed layering and montage processes with photographic raw material, which initially enabled unlimited variability in the development of motifs and thus led to a pictorial form that led to a graphic and photographic impression with painting principles. The photographic source material was transformed into a form of light painting whose depth effect could not have been achieved with conventional techniques of image production.
https://hearthis.at/radiowoltersdorf/240615-blmk-ludwig-rauch/
BMLK
Kubiak & Rauch, that is Johannes Ulrich Kubiak (born 1961 Annaberg-Buchholz, lives and works in Berlin) and Ludwig Rauch (born 1960 Leipzig, lives and works in Berlin) developed layering and montage processes with photographic raw material, which initially enabled unlimited variability in the development of motifs and thus led to an image form that ranged between graphic and photographic appearance with painting principles. The photographic source material was transformed into a form of light painting whose depth effect could not have been achieved using conventional image production techniques.
Although the images by Kubiak & Rauch as well as the current works by Ludwig Rauch can technically be attributed to photography, the image concepts of the artist duo as well as the individual artist Ludwig Rauch are profoundly located in painting in their aesthetic formulations. Motifs and subjects from different subject areas are combined to create a kind of playful surrealism with a sometimes baroque appearance. The reference to classical art and visual history is not only evident iconographically, but the repertoire of content also alludes to the major, fundamental human questions of history: nature, architecture and the human body (as well as their connection as the basis of human existence).
https://www.blmk.de/programm/ludwig-rauch-kubiak-rauch-von-wundersamen-wesen-und-landschaften/