FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LOS ANGELES, CA.

The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is proud to present Re-Construction, a new series by German photographer Lukas Roth.  This is Roth’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.  This exhibition opens Saturday, October 27 and runs through December 22, 2007.  A reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.  The reception is free and open to the public.  The gallery is located at 6150 Wilshire Boulevard, just west of Fairfax.  For information call (323) 937-0765 or visit our website at paulkopeikingallery.com

In my work, I try to make pictures out of phenomenon of perception that cannot be directly photographed.  Our perception starts with the act of physical seeing.  This information of the eye is transferred to the brain, where it is processed, filtered and interpreted, before being ‘saved’ as memory.  By the means of digital image processing, I try to reconstruct this personal impression or vision of a place into an apparently normal or straight picture, so that it will be perceptible by the spectator as directly as possible. --Lukas Roth

The view of a landscape, or any space, provides the viewer with an extensive image of a particular spatial condition and the occurrences that take place within it.  Once the viewer decides to make use of a camera to capture a moment too precious to be left undocumented, one will find upon viewing the resulting photograph that the formatting and perspective differ significantly from what is seen.  This difference between what we see and what can be captured with a camera, is the subject of Lukas Roth’s series, “Re-Construction.”

In order for Roth to create his photograph, he takes hundreds of digital pictures of one location or subject.  He then creates an image that incorporates various elements from the hundreds of digital images and seamlessly recomposing them in a constructed image that more closely resembles what was seen by the naked eye.  Roth creates idealized spatial concepts that rely on radically manipulating perspectives, axes, sizes and proportions.  It is in the process of viewing that the viewer may unzip Roth’s bag of tricks, tracking down all of the artist’s visible computer-graphical manipulations become a game of obsessive viewing.

In my work, I try to make pictures out of phenomenons of perception that cannot be directly photographed.  Our perception starts with the act of physical seeing.  This information of the eye is transferred to the brain, where it is processed, filtered and interpreted, before being ‘saved’ as memory.  By the means of digital image processing, I try to reconstruct this personal impression (or vision) of a place into an apparently normal (or straight) picture, so that it will be perceptible by the spectator as directly as possible.

CV
1965 born in Regensburg
1984 Sommerakademie Salzburg, Austria
Class Verena von Gagern
1987-1990 Studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles
1990 diploma

since 1991 freelance photographer
1996 Guest professor, Hochschule für Künste, Bremen
2000 Guest professor, Technische Universität, Darmstadt
2004 »Otto-Steinert-Award« German Society of Photography
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)

Represented by the Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne
lives and works in Cologne

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2009
Galerie Camera Work, Berlin "Rekonstruktionen" [solo]
vhs photogalerie, Stuttgart, "Lukas Roth Architekturfotograf" [solo]
2008
Rekonstruktionen« Rotonda Galerie Cologne [solo]
2007
Museo De Arte Contemporaneo MUSAC, Leon ES, "Existencias"
Paul Kopeikin Gallery Los Angeles, "Re-construction" [solo]
Contemporary German Photographers
University of Texas at Arlington – The Gallery at UTA
Karl Fritsch Schmuck-Kunst Im Kleinen Format
Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lubecker Kunstverein
New Talent, Art Cologne
2006
"D’un moment á l’autre"
Le Jeu de Paume, "hors les murs"
Maison d’art Antonio Berlioz, Nogent-sur-Marne
Curated by Regis Durand
Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne, "Library" [solo]
2005
Abbaye de Montmajour, "20 ans de Création à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie"
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
Gallery Martin Kudlek, Cologne (March-May) [solo]
2004
Award "Otto-Steinert-Preis 2004"Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) [solo]Fotobild 04, Berlin
2003
Printemps du LAC, LuxemburgFoire du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2002
Fotografien
Deutsche Ausgleichsbank, Berlin [solo]
Neue Deutsche Architektur
Gropiusbau, Berlin
1999
»Die Architektur von Heinz Bienefeld«
Deutsches Architekturmuseum,
Frankfurt am Main (catalog)
»Architectures des années 50«
Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg
»1926-1995 Heinz Bienefeld«
Architektur des Privaten
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
1997
Espace Croisé, Lille
»l’architecture moderniste à Luxembourg
dans les années 30«
Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg (catalog)
1996
images d’architecture comptemporaine en
France et en Allemagne
- Akademie der Künste, Hamburg
»par exemple-Berlin« (catalog)
images d’architecture comptemporaine à Berlin
- Goethe Institut, Paris
»Weltbild Wörlitz - Entwurf einer Kulturlandschaft«
Deutsches Architekturmuseum,
Frankfurt am Main (catalog)
1995
images d’architecture comptemporaine en
France et en Allemagne
- Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
- Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg
1994
Images d’architecture: hier et aujourd’hui
Institut Culturel Franco-Allemand, Tübingen
1993
Photoszene Köln
T4 Temporäre Galerie, Köln [solo]
1990
d’Arles à Amboise
Chateau d’Amboise (catalog)

COLLECTIONS
- KfW Bankengruppe Frankfurt am Main
- Badenwürtembergische Landesbank, Stuttgart
- KfW Bankengruppe Frankfurt am Main
- Badenwürtembergische Landesbank, Stuttgart