Lukas Marxt

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  • 2022 | L11-LB_Y-1792 Assembly Kit
  • 2022 | TEST PIT LOG (I’m gonna realize)
  • 2022 | ENCLOSURE III (I’m gonna explode)
  • 2022 | Marine Target
  • 2022 | Loading Pit_revised
  • 2022 | Ein Haiku über die Passsteinstrasse
  • 2021 | Sehr gepflegt und gut gelegen
  • 2020 | Imperial Irrigation
  • 2019 | Ralfs Farben
  • 2019 | Loading Pit
  • 2018 | Victoria
  • 2018 | Imperial Valley (cultivated run-off)
  • 2017 | Shadowland
  • 2017 | Fishing is not done on Tuesdays
  • 2017 | Current Shot 02
  • 2016 | Echoes from the Sky
  • 2016 | Cape Ground
  • 2016 | Circular Inscription
  • 2015 | Wunderschoen und ruhig gelegen
  • 2015 | Diagonale Trailer
  • 2015 | Captive Horizon
  • 2014 | Black Rain White Scars
  • 2014 | Double Dawn
  • 2013 | Two Skies
  • 2013 | High Tide
  • 2013 | Low Tide
  • 2013 | Reign of Silence
  • 2012 | It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not
  • 2012 | Nella Fantasia
  • 2011 | Rising Fall
  • 2010 | Black Beauty
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It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not | 37 min | 2012

Humans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not Lukas Marxt puts himself in this situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange can hardly be expected. The artist moves through an inhospitable location. The subjective camera makes his gaze our own as he glides over a variety of structures in the rocky ground of the volcanic Canary Island of Lanzarote.

The film´s first shot takes us over rugged terrain, and we can sense the nearby abyss. The crunching of the gravel and the artist´s labored breathing accompany each step of this expedition, giving us a feel for the efforts and difficulties involved in his progress. A restless searching in circles throws us back to our own expectations, which contrast with the ease of a sauntering man. In the distance we see a building with antennas and broadcasting towers jutting into the sky, indicating a form of communication from which we remain excluded.
Our path leads down a stairway into the darkness of a basement: The film´s sole interior shot shows a woman on an improvised stage who begins to sing. But before we have a chance to comprehend this unexpected situation, Marxt interrupts the strange encounter. From this point on we don´t see another human being, solely animals. An odd kind of lurking is an extended moment before someone decides to act. At the film´s end the borders between inside and outside seem to have disappeared — if they ever existed at all. (Daniela Kinateder)

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_MG_5352New Talents, Cologne, 2014

_DSF4917It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not,
Künstlerbuch, 180 Seiten, 2013

LC00093-058Installation View, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2013

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