LINOLEUM AND WOOD CUTS

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Vorstadt, Stempelbild 4b, 100 x 150 cm, linoleum cut on packing paper, 1991

In 1991, Ute Pleuger began a series...a study of architecture through the use of linoleum and wood cuts. 

In Pleuger's catalog, "Serial Spaces", Werkbund-Archive, Martin-Gropius-Building, Berlin, 1996, Kathrin Becker wrote the following: 

"The reduction of representation, which she [Pleuger] achieves in painting through the renunciation of details and by limiting her colors, is carried to further extremes in the “Stempelbilder” (stamped images): the elements constituting the facades are transformed into individual “stamps,” i.e., geometrical print forms, from which the facades are assembled. Pleuger is concerned with the boundary between representation and abstraction, which she delineates as the turning-point between illusion and exemplar...Abstraction is intensified through the serial production of the picture-elements; the facade is subjected to a systematization which results in the repetition of individual picture-elements."

Wohntuerme, Stempelbild 20, 100 x 150 cm, woodcut on packing paper, Berlin 1994

Hofe , Stempelbild 22, 150x200 cm, woodcut on packing paper on canvas, Berlin 1994

Mietskasernen, Stempelbild 10, 150 x 200 cm, linoleum cut on packing paper, Berlin 1992

Hochhaeuser, Stempelbild 34, 150 x 200, linoleum cut on packing paper, Berlin 1995

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