frank gerlitzki:
... lebendig zu sein

' ... denn sie hatten nichts zu verlieren und kein Ziel, außer ganz lebendig zu sein'

A door can shut a space...

.....Frank Gerlitzki opts for opening, for the creation of contact and communication. His conceptual works and projects are full of discreet ironic winks to the contemporary artscene, but a mood of calm brings to his creations serenity along with powerful intensity.

Painter, photographer, multi-media artist, writer he also produces catalogues, invitation cards and videos.

Since the opening of his "Espace ApArt" in 2003, he doesn't not only show his own work but organises also shows of work by other artists and arranges lectures, performances and film-shows.

For him being an artist doesn't stop at painting pictures or producing artworks. His understanding of art is much more complex. Art is daily reality.

Not limiting himself to a specific technique, choosing the medium that seems most appropriated for the representation of his ideas and visions, integrating a deep reflexion and questionning about the architecture and socio-cultural reality of the exhibition space, Frank Gerlitzki doesn't hide however his origins as a painter.

His  works are contemporary Polaroids, celebrating the moment but always on the run. Open windows to China's chaotic city life as well as to the spiritual and metaphysica loneliness of a hidden temple.

They sing the rhytmic and hard sound of cityscapes as well as the melancholic one of never ending landscapes; the stress of metropolis and the nervous rigidity of big emotions- Idyllic and cynical: HEART and HARD become one.

His artistic language is like a whisper just before complete silent, waiting to be transformed in an explosion of shouting.

This work can be seen regularly in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece and China and was awarded with the créateur d'aujourd'hui award in 1997 and the "Prix Gauguin "in 1998.

Fragmentos

L’oeuvre artistique de frank gerlitzki tente à explorer les relations et voies de communication existant entre chaque corps et son environnement!

Par une représentation des transparences et ouvertures de la peau, qui est organe de communicaton en même temps que structure de séparation avec l’extérieur pour un corps organique,les portes et autres moyens de passage s’ouvrent pour une exploration de l’intime et du caché.

Différentes formes de champs de couleurs fragmentés et reliés par toutes sortes de conduits permettent cette communication.

L’artiste,motivé par un impérieux besoin de recherche,utilise le jeu de la lumière,supports et matériaux réfléchissant de temps en temps le spectateur. ses compositions géométriques acquièrent ainsi mouvement et emotion... entre ceux-ci et la peinture s’instaure une communication sans cesse renouvelée.

frank gerlitzki expose régulièrement au grand-duché, en france, belgique, grèce, chine, allemagne et en suisse