_Sediments / Rocks, 2021
_Graphite, India ink, acrylic paint, and wax encaustic on wooden panel
37.8 x 47.2 in

Solo Exhibition_ Immanence

2019

In his noisy battle with nature, Lucas Länder constructs deconstructed, fragmented, misted, and elusive landscapes. The deconstruction of the imagetic and the tangible is present throughout his entire process: drawing with graphite, painting with India ink, sketching with washes, and finishing with paraffin — by combining such techniques, Lucas creates a fragmented, suspended universe, like a puzzle filled with endless possibilities of completion.

Lucas’s world has no pre-imagined rules: it is a free repertoire, full of paths and combinations. He creates internal and external landscapes, filled with gesture, intention, and a certain voracious drive. In both doubt and determination, the artist embraces unplanned improvisation — a guiding uncertainty. In doing so, he becomes a vehicle
for a poetic that is incisive and questioning, multifaceted, and full of possibilities. Yet, within these expansive directions lies a paradoxically sharp trace — one that hesitates in appearance, but not in intent. It is precise, yet vague; fluid.
This imagined world from another time connects us immediately to everything unspoken, unthought. It stirs silent, camouflaged inner volcanoes.

Elegant in proposition, his works may, at times, appear seductively polished — but they are not about that. They carry within them the volcanic acid that overturns and transforms everything, irreversibly — a process eternalized through paraffin.

This impatient, monochromatic lava inscribes itself upon the landscape, the earth, the paper, and every surface it touches — forming a language initially connected to writing as we know it, only
to then strike other layers of meaning, speaking deeply, communicating with a precision beyond our awareness. It touches the possibilities we hadn’t imagined — unknown even to ourselves, and to nature.