R O B E R T   L A N Z

Between Substance and Trace – Painting as a State of Matter

Substance as Language – Matter in Transition

The Surface as Event Horizon – Pigment Processes in the Tension Field between Gravitation and Dissolution

Robert Lanz situates his artistic practice at the intersection of materiality, conceptual rigor, and procedural experimentation.


His work unfolds through overlapping layers of the microscopic and the cosmic, the chemical and the poetic. The surface becomes a resonant field – a space where pigments, metals, stones, and light are not mere materials but active agents in a dynamic process.

 

His paintings are not composed in the traditional sense, but emerge through an experimental logic of reaction, transformation, and decay – akin to geological or biological systems under controlled disruption. Lanz is less interested in the final image than in the painting as a site of continuous transition.

 

His series often span hundreds of works on paper, forming visual ecologies that are both meticulous and volatile. In contrast, his large-format paintings appear as concentrated zones – crystallizations of a process that elsewhere remains in flux.

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Pigment as a Cosmic Trace

Color becomes the residual signature of an event – shaped by temporal pressure, gravity, and molecular drift.

The Image Thinks in States of Matter

Between solid, liquid, and evaporated – painting emerges as a transitional form, a visible expression of thermodynamic systems.

The Surface as Resonant Space

Every impulse, every response inscribes itself into the skin of the painting – as an echo of light, touch, and entropy.
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Matter as a Carrier of Memory

What adheres, remains – pigment particles preserve moments like archives, driven by pressure, friction, and time.

Light as a Form-Giving Force

The eye does not merely see – light itself constructs the image: through scattering, reflection, and quantum flow.
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Beyond the image, the field begins.

A Dive into the Elements: Where Substance and Expression Fuse in Abstract Symmetry

 

UNTITLED , 2024
Oil, tar, shellac, ink, Epoxy resin on wood
119 x 89.5 x 4.5 cm
119 x 90 x 4,5 cm

JACKY – JACQUELINE LEE BOUVIER KENNEDY ONASSIS, 2018

Ink, aluminum, copper burned on paper

29,7 x 21 cm
11.7 x 8.3 in

UNTITLED, 2011
Oil, tar, shellac, pigments, ink on canvas
100 x 80 cm
39.37 x 31.5 in

UNTITLED , 2019

Oil, ink, copper, shellac, aluminum, pigments, resin on paper on canvas

60 x 50 x 3 cm
23.62 x 19.69 x 1.18 in

MOZART CHINA, 2018

Iron oxide black, copper, spirit, aluminium, petrol, ink, shellac, acrylic deep primer on paper
29,7 x 21 cm
11.7 x 8.3 in

UNTITLED, 2018
Ink, aluminum, copper burned on paper

29,7 x 21 cm

11.7 x 8.3 in

MONSIEUR DONALD TRUMP, 2018

Oil, tar, ink, ink, aluminum, copper, shellac on wood

60.0 x 50.0 x 1,5 cm
23.62 x 19.69 x 0.59 in

PROJECT RAV LAU

In collaboration with Monika Hübscher

 

HIDING BEHIND THE DYING, 2016
Ink, Indian ink, metallic pigments, bronze powder on paper

21 x 29,7 cm
8.3 x 11.7 in

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UNTITLED, 2014
Oil, ink, tar, pigments, pen ink, boat varnish on Alu-DIBOND

30 x 40 cm

11.81 x 15.75 in

MEMORY BUOY

 

MEMORY BUOY, 2018

Black iron oxide, copper, spirit, aluminium, petrol, Indian ink, shellac, acrylic primer on paper

21 x 29,7 cm

8.3 x 11.7 in

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UNTITLED, 2015

Oil, ink, tar, copper, schellack, aluminium, pigments on canvas

183 x 180 cm

72.05 x 72.05 in

CAMBER, 2018
Ink, aluminum, copper, Iron oxide on paper

42 x 29,7 cm

16.54 x 11.69 in

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Portrait 1-5, 2015

Oil, ink, tar, copper, schellack, pigments on canvas

90 x 80 x 1,8 cm
35.43 x 31.5 x 0.71 in

Portrait 1-5 ROBERT_LANZ_DFIOH

 

UNTITLED, 2018

Iron oxide black, cooper, aluminium on paper

42 x 59,4 cm
16,5 x 23,4 in

Select ISLAND PORTRAITS ROBERT_LANZ_DFIOH

 

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ISLAND PORTRAITS, 2014

Oil, tar, shellac on aluminum

100 x 80 x 5 cm

39.37x 31.49 x 1.96 in

Exploring the Elements: Where Substance and Expression Converge in Abstract Symmetry.

PLASMA, 2014
Oil, ink, tar,pigments on canvas

55 x 57 cm
21.65 x 22.44 in

Select LEMURIA ROBERT_LANZ_DFIOH

 

LEMURIA, 2018
Hot glue on paper

29,7 x 21cm
11,7 x 8,3 in

PARTY HEAD, 2014

Oil, ink, tar, copper, aluminum, shellack, pigments on canvas

120 x 100 cm
47.24 x 39.37 in

UNTITLED, 2019

Oil, ink, metal pigments, aluminum, shallac, bronze powder: color: „copper“, bronze powder: „Pale-Ghold“ gold foil, graphite on linen

190 x 145,7 cm
74.8 x 57.09 in

UNTITLED, 2018

Iron oxide black, cooper, aluminium on paper

42 x 59,4 cm
16,5 x 23,4 in

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CORPUS DETECTI, 2008
Oil, tar, shellac, ink on wood

260 x 190 cm
102.36 x 74.8 in

CONCEPTUAL DNA ROBERT_LANZ_DFIOH

CONCEPTUAL DNA, 2018
Ink, aluminum, copper burned on paper
42.0 x 29.7 cm
16.5 x 11.7 in

FOKUSHIMA , 2011
Oil, tar, shellac, ink on wood

200 x 160 cm
78.74 x 62.99 in

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