This book is an exhibition on paper. Its pages become the space where a decade of work unfolds. When objects meet, something new emerges between them, a silent conversation, a shifting presence that resists definition. Our gaze moves through this space, from distance to closeness, until surfaces become landscapes and scales dissolve. What is small turns monumental, what is vast fits into a palm. Each piece enters into dialogue with the next, forming interwoven narratives that stretch across the pages and beyond.
Lukas Thaler
Blush on a wrinkled cheek
Softcover, with numerous color illustrations
Language: German, English
Editor: Lukas Thaler
Concept: Simeon Brugger, Zeynep Brugger, Lukas Thaler
Text: Monika Georgieva, Simone Molinari, Vanessa Joan Müller, Lukas Thaler
Book Design: Marie Artaker
Pages: 240 pp.
Size: 26.5 x 20 cm
Printed in Austria, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-904157-05-6
About Lukas Thaler
Lukas Thaler’s (*1989) artistic practice consists of a broad spectrum of two- and three-dimensional objects. The central motif of his work is the inscription of meaning onto form. Its identification, naming and legibility are the subject of his painterly and sculptural oeuvre. Thaler’s groups of works and ongoing series emerge in an iterative process shaped by his experimental use of materials and various media. Variation, sequence and repetition are important aspects of his method. He correlates the individual objects to closely examine their interdependence. Manual gestures overlap with traces of digital technologies, the abstract mingles with the concrete and reality blends with fiction. Thaler’s pieces can be identified as protagonists or characters, they take on varying roles. The motif of animating or activating allegedly dead matter is central in his work.