Lothar Götz
Lothar Götz lives and works in London and Berlin. His work often has a sense of the redemptive, hinting at other better worlds, ideal visions beyond the day-to-day that reflect his interest in the art and design of the political and cultural utopias of the early 20th century such as the Bauhaus or Constructivism. This is seen most directly in the drawing, The house of the worker, inspired by a 1922 dress design by Aleksandr Rodchenko, a work that literally draws on and retrofits the past, using a sheet of paper taken from a vintage Ingres pad.
Xanadu is a working drawing in preparation of a wall painting, an example of how Lothar plans a site-specific intervention. It shows an important moment in the decision-making process for the painting following a site visit – here to the Victorian staircase of Leeds City Art Gallery.
The watercolour Untitled is part of a long running continuous series of works on black paper depicting darker moods or magic moments, hidden moments in life not often shared in public.
“I see abstraction both then and now as a resistance to the political. It’s not heroic but it’s still the withholding of one’s personal will: the choice not to illustrate power. There’s a certain activism in abstraction.”
Lothar studied BA Visual Communication at University of Applied Sciences / FH Aachen (1983-88) has an MA Aesthetics at University of Wuppertal and studied an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London.
Selected recent group exhibitions include Masterpieces in Miniature at The 2021 Model Art Gallery, Chichester, Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London. Recent Solo exhibitions include Pool, Holden Gallery, Manchester, Dance Diagonal, Towner Eastbourne, Salvation, Domobaal Gallery, London and Volcano, Petra Rinck Gallery, Dusseldorf. Awards include Abbey Fellowship, The British School at Rome, Italy and Artists Links Residency, Shanghai, China.
