Federico Luger at the London Art Fair
Curated projects: Encounters
LONDON ART FAIR 2024
Curated Section: ENCOUNTERS. Booth: E8.
Business Design Centre. 52 Upper Street. London, N1 0QH
17 – 21.01.2024
LINE CONCEPT
Federico Luger draws inspiration from different characters of the history and theory of contemporary art, especially from conceptualism (Joseph Kosuth and André Cadere) and minimalism (Fred Sanback).
He uses the combination of lines and words, which he takes from different comic books, so that the dialogues are incomplete, or arbitrarily combined. These lines float in space, together with the words and some images that, in the ensemble, form a visual dialogue. The dialogues are almost nonsensical and the lines are abstractions, of Cadere’s stick, as a symbol of power and knowledge.
The colours and the words come together at one point in which, for Luger, the artistic event has its origin: the viewer gets actually in touch with the work because of the need of fulfilling the sense, of imagining its meaning. The images, the words, and the color overpass the limit of the line, like a border that have to be crossed.
ECOSYSTEMS
Federico Luger presents Ed Wood, an invented artist born in 2004, with a selection of works on paper from the series Ecosystem. A representative of connections between ropes and dry trees that show how the world can be fragile and dynamic in a surreal equilibrium.
FORTNITE SERIES
Oil paintings inspired by the popular video game Fortnite. Each painting showcases a different in-game "skin," emphasizing the power and abilities these outfits confer on players. Luger balances a realistic and pop-art style for the skins with a personal, gestural background that includes elements from his earlier works. The series, titled "All Roads Lead to Fortnite," explores how digital media has reshaped our concept of geography and the role of digital spaces like Fortnite as hubs for social interaction, especially during the global lockdown. It materializes the game's iconic characters in oil on canvas, bringing the PIXEL to the PIGMENT.
