Leseprobe

13 Colors are the Smile of Nature Colors infiltrate, deeply as smells. Blue is the color of distance and desire — color of the miraculous, color of knowledge. Luley‘s shady depths of the cool “Nord- land“ series seem unfathomable — the image space opens up behind a blue of sheer tangible force, a fluid of silvery gleaming tones. It is of delicate bright- ness and puts the horizon in disconcert- ing distance — blue marks the urge of yearning. In between there are small “islands“ in yellow and ocher, a soft glow escapes from theses, too. Luley explores the sensual power of elemental colors, portrays the colors of the sky, the sun and the stone, she lays velvety green next to glowing red, cool turquoise on matte brown and creates inner images — floating landscapes with softly undu- lating valleys, magical shadows and a distant horizon. […] The cool obscurations of her landscapes with the abstract forebodings of banks of fog and falling night are full of mys- tery, they reflect the uncertain, describe states of hanging between appearance and disappearance, between “not yet” and “not anymore”. In Luley’s composi- tions one sees impenetrable shadows next to light-filled colors. Again and again, the eye sinks into a symphonic light atmosphere in which the deep colors gently and invitingly form soft hollows. Glowing colors and sweeping serpentines lead ones view to an imaginary horizon, allowing clouds, mountains, the sea and rivers to float away like a fairy tale. Over and over Luley has referred to the poetic dimension of her work. Poetic processes allow the hidden and obscure to emerge. The artist, who refuses to follow the worn-out tracks of tradition, to be free from the attitudes of the art market, turns art into an experience of wonder. RICARDA GEIB M. A . From the catalog “Landscapes & Clouds“ – Conny Luley, Sandstein Verlag 2016