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Window to The Clouds at Salon Berlin of Museum Frieder Burda is the Paris-based artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s first institutional solo presentation in Germany. Comprised of recent paintings, ceramics and sculptures, the exhibition imagines a series of contemporary land- scapes as painterly reflections that look at—and through—various architectures, historical paintings and current events. These environments act as stages for worlds of shared experience, human presence and touch.
 
Bodies, sacred and pro- fane, appear in several of Lutz-Kinoy’s paintings in Window to The Clouds. A string of these reference the French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s La Porte de l'Enfer (1880–1917). Rodin’s dramatic bronze gate cites the epic poem Inferno, Dante Alighieri's 14th-century meditation on the rejection of sin as the soul journeys toward the divine. Over one hundred and eighty figures jostle and writhe within its monumental frame. In Exhausted Angel Receives an Announcement in Rodin’s Garden (2019), Lutz-Kinoy depicts a cherub, rendered in the color of a blush, gazing upwards. Two shadowy arms reach down toward the weary figure from outside the composition’s edge. The garden scene, framed by a bushy rococo evergreen, is a painterly contemplation upon the porousness between interior and exterior environments. Like a win- dow, a painting can invite a viewer beyond the present. In dialogue with Wings of Flamingos, Camargue (2020)—a large, site-specific ceiling painting in an adjacent gallery that calls to the figure of the exhausted angel—the lush floor covering directs attention to the theatrical possibilities of architecture, and to the activation of a room through ornamentation.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
Courtesy of the artist; Photo: Kamel Mennour, Paris/London
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
An opening of the field, 2020/ The Ray, 2019;
nstallation view: Private Collection Courtesy of the artist; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Wool / Acrylic on canvas, 260×170 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Exhausted Angel Receives an Announcement in Rodin’s Garden, 2019 / An opening of the field, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Vince Q Y Xie; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 260 x 170 cm / Wool
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
An opening of the field, 2020 / The Ray, 2019
Private Collection Courtesy of the artist; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Wool / Acrylic on canvas, 260×170 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
An opening of the field, 2020 / The Ray, 2019
Private Collection Courtesy of the artist; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Wool / Acrylic on canvas, 260 x 170 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Window to Rio, 2020 / Lectures of Burle Marx, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 170×255 cm / Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 160×255 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Lectures of Burle Marx, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 160×255 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Thunberg Greets The Nations, 23 September 2019, 2019
Courtesy of the artist and Collection Mario Testino; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 260×170 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Vue du torrent du Valentin dans le parc des Buttes Chaumont au sud, 2020 / Capriccio à Paris, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 197×138 cm / Acrylic on canvas, 160×250 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Vue du torrent du Valentin dans le parc des Buttes Chaumont au sud, 2020 / Capriccio à Paris, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 197×138 cm / Acrylic on canvas, 160×250 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
An opening of the field, 2020
Courtesy of the artist; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Wool
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
An opening of the field, 2020 / ; Lombardy Capriccio, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Wool / Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 150×255 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
An opening of the field, 2020 / Lombardy Capriccio, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Wool / Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 150×255 cm
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Wings of Flamingos, Camargue, 2020 / Keramikos 3, 2019 / Pillow In Cognac With Relaxed Figure, 2018 / ; Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child With Polkadots, 2018 / Pillow In Green With Relaxing Figure, 2018; / Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child Wit
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels and Fitzpatrick Gallery; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 380×690 cm / Glazed ceramics, dimensions variable
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Wings of Flamingos, Camargue, 2020 / ; Keramikos 3, 2019 / Pillow In Cognac With Relaxed Figure, 2018; Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child With Polkadots, 2018; Pillow In Green With Relaxing Figure, 2018; Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child With Lan
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels and Fitzpatrick Gallery; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Acrylic on canvas, 380×690 cm / Glazed ceramics, dimensions variable
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Keramikos 3, 2019 / ; Pillow In Cognac With Relaxed Figure, 2018; Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child With Polkadots, 2018; Pillow In Green With Relaxing Figure, 2018; Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child With Landscape, 2018; Pillow In The Form Of
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels and Fitzpatrick Gallery; Photo: Thomas Bruns
Hand-painted set of 20 glazed ceramic plates / Glazed ceramics, dimensions variable
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Keramikos 3, 2019
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels
Hand-painted set of 20 glazed ceramic plates (here no 8)
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Keramikos 3, 2019
Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, New York and Brussels
Hand-painted set of 20 glazed ceramic plates (here no 14
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - Window to the Clouds
Pillow In The Form Of Reclining Child With Polkadots, 2018
Courtesy of the artist and Fitzpatrick Gallery; Photo: Andrea Morin
Glazed ceramic, 30 x 10 x 13 cm
Curators: Patricia Kamp