the intelligence of things

Lilian Kreutzberger

Lilian Kreutzberger, Empty-Handed Every-Things, 2013, plaster, wood plexiglass, paper ink, 24 inch x 20 inc x 24 inch

Moments in which the reality does or doesn’t match the previously imagined, are both source and the condition of the work itself. As painter and sculptor, I deal with expressions of longing. With melancholic meditations on the futility of private and collective utopias, I reflect upon lost dreams, motives and beliefs that define the ruins of our endless cityscapes. While trying to understand contemporary society through the built environment, I became interested in the physical shadow of what Rosalind Krauss calls ‘the Grid’ (that ‘turns its back on nature’). The project ‘Engineering Hope’ is an exploration of expressions given to imaginations with an abstract point of reference: the model. My project investigates the seductive quality of the model in urban planning, the limits of the model as tool and the actual neighborhoods that became a physical version of its original simplified and functional point of reference. I designed an impossible building of which the building-parts are made of plaster. Situated in a wooden frame, these parts fall apart if one would attempt to remove them in order to built the model; one can only imagine the model, like utopia. Now, before ever built, the model is already decaying in its frame.

Lilian Kreutzberger, Empty-Handed Every-Things, 2013, plaster, wood, 9 ft x 36 x 45

Lilian Kreutzberger, Empty-Handed Every-Things, 2013, one way mirror, light bulb, metal, 12 x 24 inch

Lilian Kreutzberger, Engineering Hope, 2012, sketches for the model

Lilian Kreutzberger, Engineering Hope, 2012, the model, plaster, ink, wood, 9 times 18 by 24 inch

Lilian Kreutzberger, Engineering Hope, 2012, ink, plaster, wood, 36 x 48 inch

Lilian Kreutzberger, Engineering Hope, 2012, ink, plaster, wood, 36 x 48 inch

Lilian Kreutzberger, n.t., 2012, wax, 18 x 24 inch

Lilian Kreutzberger, n.t. 2012, acrylic and ink on paper, 30 x 24 inch

Lilian Kreutzberger, n.t. 2011, acrylic and resin on real flowers

Lilian Kreutzberger, Tower of Babel-Panopticon, 2011, marker on paper

Lillian Kreutzberger (b. 1984, the Netherlands) received a BFA at the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague (2007) and was a recent Fulbright scholar at Parsons. In 2007, Wim van Krimpen, former director of the Gemeente Museum, the Hague, invited Kreutzberger to take part in the exhibition ‘7up’. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Palace, the Netherlands, and the Dutch Pavilion at the World Expo, Shanghai 2010. Kreutzbergers proposal for a commissioned permanent work for a residence building in Rijswijk, the Netherlands was selected by Rietveld Architects, New York. She was nominated for the Royal Prize for Painting twice and won the Buning Brongers Painting Prize.

Websites: www.liliankreutzberger.blogspot.com www.liliankreutzberger.nl email: liliankreutzberger@yahoo.com