Leda Luss Luyken

Leda Luss Luyken, née Valata, (born 1952 in Athens) is a Greek-American conceptual artist, who lives and works in Germany.

Biography

Leda Luss-Luyken was educated at the Ecole d'Humanité in Switzerland and studied arts and architecture in Zurich, New York and Manchester. During that time she was particularly influenced by the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and Richard Neutra as well as Japanese garden architecture.

She then began her professional career as an architectural designer and interior architect in New York, working intensively with designs by Charles Eames, Herman Miller and Eero Saarinen.

Drawing on this experience, Leda Luss Luyken has been working since 1983 as a conceptual artist in England, Germany and Greece. She received painting tutorials from Alfred de Vivanco, a pupil of Emil Nolde and is regularly being coached by Gisela Sellenriek (Academy of Fine Arts Berlin and Munich).

Works Figurative works 1985 to 1996

This is a body of work ranging from life drawing to expressive figurative paintings depicting personifications of the condition humaine. They were shown in two major solo shows in Amsterdam "Always at Midnight" Gallery Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, 1992 and "De koning en zijn hofhouding" Gallery Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, 1994 and are documented in a monograph.Tom Prader (Ed): Breaking the Rules | Die Regeln brechen, Zurich, 1997

ModulArt 1996 to date

ModulArt is Leda Luss Luyken's conceptual innovation, a "new way of motion in painting" (Denys Zacharopoulos).cf. Georg von Kap-herr (Ed.): Leda Luss Luyken :ModulArt, Bobingen, 2008, pp 6-25 Luss Luyken has produced cycles of paintings using this innovative technique: Millennium (1996–2002); Greek Spirit (2003–2005); Genesis (2006–2008); 96% Dark Matter (2008–2010); Cosmos Sensual (2010–2011). Each of these cycles comprises approximately 20 large scale paintings measuring 180 : 180 cm or more.

In terms of contemporary art, ModulArt belongs to the category of conceptual art. It is not so much the finished painting but its openness to change and alterability that define the basic idea of ModulArt. The painter's subjects are open to their de- and reconstruction into new, modulated images. To do so, the artist lets go of her work and allows for its further development by the viewer. The viewer thus becomes an active user of art. Modulated images open up new perspectives and insights on the subject, the artistic development of a piece of art remains in a state of flux. Such further development of a ModulArt painting is open-source and can be done any time in nearly unlimited variations. Luss Luyken's ModulArt coincides and was developed independently during the same period of time with Stefano Vagnini's ModulArt in the realm of musical composition. Both hold that the artist’s tools to creativity are virtually unlimited by way of ModulArt.

Luss-Luyken's ModulArt was publicly exhibited in museums in Leipzig, Munich, Berlin and Weimar as well as in major solo shows in galleries in Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich and Munich. Luss Luyken's ModulArt is documented in a catalogue,Klaus Walterspiel: TryDax, Munich, 2000 a monograph,Georg von Kap-herr (Ed.): Leda Luss Luyken :ModulArt, Bobingen, 2008 a collector's catalogue Christoph und Stephan Kaske Stiftung, Dagmar and Joachim Kaske (Ed.): Wanderjahre. Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Kaske 1970-2010. With texts by Anna Wondrak, 204 pp., Munich 2011: pp. 6, 12, 18, 19, 38, 63, 70, 71 and three films.Dagmar Scheibert and Reinhard Eisner: Παντα ρει: Leda Luss-Luyken's ModulArt, film + tv feature, 12’, Berlin, 2004 | Roman Luyken: :ModulArt©LLL, 1’30”, Studio L, London, 2009 | Peider Defilla: Leda Luss Luyken: ModulArt, TV feature for BRalpha TV, 15', Munich, 2011

Museum exhibitions

Major solo gallery shows

1969 Stöckli Ausstellung, Ecole d'Humanité, Goldern, Switzerland 1987 5th Annual Exhibition of Young Artists, Cavendish House, Manchester, U.K. 1990 My Gender: a Woman Paints Women, Casabella Gallery, Manchester, U.K. 1992 Always at Midnight, Gallery Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1994 De koning en zijn hofhouding, Gallery Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1994 Right or Wrong, my Love, Galerie Belarte, Dübendorf, ZH, Switzerland 1998 Farbige und Weiße, Kunstpavillion Munich, Germany 1999 Perhaps Love, Gallerie Brouwersgracht Twee Drie Acht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2001 Die Sünde, HYPOSWISS, Zurich, Switzerland 2002 Six-pack, Galerie Browersgracht Twe Drie Acht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2004 Overzichtstentoonstelling 1991–2004, Gallery Twee Drie Acht, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2006 Greek Spirit: e-motion, camera artis, Schauplatz für moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany 2008 Genesis, Camera artis, Schauplatz für moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany 2008 RiceArt, Galerie Refugium, Dresden, Germany 2009 :ModulArt = 4^y x y!, Marstall, Berg, Germany 2010 ModulArt: Freude an Innovation, BMW - SM, Munich | Germany 2010 |local > global | P1 | arts space | Melos | Greece 2011 Cosmos Sensual, ars24, Munich, Germany

Art trade fair shows

2011 | Ai15 | ART INNSBRUCK | Austria | 2011 | und#6 | Karlsruhe | Germany | 2011 | art Athina | Greece | 2012 | Ai16 | ART INNSBRUCK | Austria |

Memberships Kulturverein Berg | Germany Kunstverein München k.m | Munich | Germany

External links

LLLarts Saatchi Gallery Art Report

References

Leda Luss Luyken

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