Prof. Adam Lude Döring - The most important contemporary figurative artist

”Human Images” - Dual exhibition in the Caritas hospital and in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie

07.02.2003 - 31.03.2003

A representative cross-section of the multiple talents of Adam Lude Döring is being presented in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie during February and March 2003. Over productive decades, Adam Lude Döring followed his own path which began in Saxony and which led him to a voyage of artistic self-discovery and liberation following the war and deprived beginnings in the West. Lude Döring has been living and working in Sachsenheim-Häfnerhaslach close to Bietigheim-Bissingen since 1978. In addition to successful exhibitions in Stuttgart and the surrounding region, the artist has also held exhibitions of his works in Berlin, Munich and Paris. Adam Lude Döring's trademark are his hundred-square compositions; the surface is systematically placed underneath a screen comprising 100 equal squares. It is on these separate squares that the play of lines, figures, forms and colours performs spontaneously. Fragments, figures, hands, faces, profiles, fingers, gestures and joints are individual leitmotifs, geometrically arranged and crossed by segments, curves, grids, nets, stripes, bars, slopes, instruments, accessories, associations – all of which contribute towards metamorphoses. Momentary sketches from the ballet studio, daily life, games and sports are some of the delicacies of this weightless art which nevertheless follows a set pattern. Adam Lude Döring started off in the 1960s doing heads, and has remained true to this subject although a former art professor of his tried to discourage him, claiming ”Nothing will come of it”. The eyes and eyebrows always ended up too large. Picasso of course was also ”to blame” for this. It is the shape arising from within which forms the solidity, not the colour. Yet the generally clear colours also hold the work together, such as the characteristic triad of yellow, black and red or the typical translucent blue. There is no end of possibilities in a square: the vivid line meets the geometric form and the artist observes who has the most power. Poetry thus comes from geometry. The formal aesthetic of the structure of the painting is a result of the work, not its precondition. The artist says that he could not construct anything from outside. ”I work from the inside out. If I try to work aesthetically it works out badly”. The highly-interesting dual exhibition, could be visited at both the Caritas hospital at Bad Mergentheim and in the LAUDA FabrikGalerie.

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