Lars Wunderlich: This Could've been an Email

 

For our last show of the year, we are happy to announce the return of Lars Wunderlich to Urban Spree Galerie with his second solo show to date. 

"This Could've Been an Email" presents the most recent works of the Berlin-based German artist and will open on Friday, November 29th from 18:00 to 22:00 in presence of the artist. 

 

 In 2019, his first show with the gallery, "What Are We Looking For?“ was a vertiginous exploration of our tech-dominated and image-centric world. Pre-pandemic, the artist was already deeply exploring the limes of our surveillance capitalism society, which did not yet turned into an insidious surveillance authoritarianism. 

 

100 years ago, the advent of the surrealist movement was meant to create and depict a dreamlike world, sometimes illogical, irrational, born out the creative cradle of the post-WWI.

Fast forward 100 years and the advent of the internet revolution, the paintings of  Wunderlich are related to what we can call "post-internet art", ie a depiction of a "reality" seen through internet that becomes consubstantial to it - and which by definition doesn't exist outside or without internet. 

Painting internet phenomena, dissecting the meme culture, transforming our perception of reality (are what we are seeing real?) is what Wunderlich excels in his new exhibition. 

« Any similarities to actual person, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental ».

In Wunderlich paintings, nothing is fortuitous. The paintings are based on actual images, but exist for and in an alternate reality.

Wunderlich embarks us on a disturbing journey into a new surrealism shaped by internet culture.  

 

 

Lars Wunderlich

"This Could've been an Email"

Urban Spree Galerie

Vernissage: 29 November 2024 from 18:00 to 22:00

29 November - 21 December 2024

Tuesday-Saturday 11:00-19:00

info & catalogue: contact@urbanspree.com