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Artist Exhibitions:
Main exhibitions
1987 Galerie St-Michel à
Luxembourg-ville
« Aquarelles sur la
ville et le pays de
Luxembourg »
1991 Schauwenburg ,
Bertrange-Luxembourg
« Lumières et
Couleurs « Aquarelles
figuratives et
abstraites
1992 Source Kind,
Mondorf-les-Bains
« Aufbruch «
Dessins, Gouaches, Acryls,
Techniques
Mixtes, Œuvres Plastiques
1992 – 1994 Tour du Monde
2000 Châ...
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Artist Statement for Rom Lammar
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Rom LAMMAR : born on the 23rd of February 1956 in Luxembourg.
I have two main passions in my life: travelling and creating art.
I started selling paintings ( mainly water colour paintings about the city and the country of Luxembourg ) in 1987 with the help of an art gallery in Luxembourg-City. Those type of paintings sold very well, but after a year and a half or so , I resented a lack of creativity in my works and I thought it was time to move on and change my style and the content of my paintings.
So, instead of painting landscapes and urban places that really existed, I started doing imaginary compositions ( mainly landscapes and flowers ). The colours I used and mixed were of a great vividness. I was still using watercolours as I had acquired a certain experience with that medium.
During that time, I also started doing my first experiences with abstract compositions ( still with water-colours ).
The definitive step in a new direction was done when I started painting with gouache and acrylic colours and when I developed more and more the feeling for what is generally called " active painting ". Over 90 % of what I painted during the nineties can be classified under what is called " abstract expressionism ".
Over a short period in 1992, I also produced a series of drawings.
More and more I took the complete liberty to let my imagination go, by experimenting with very different kinds of colours, supports, tools and materials. The decisive event on that path was undoubtedly my round the world trip that I did from November 1992 until may 1994. During those nineteen months, I spent hundreds of hours painting, going to art galleries and museums all over the world, talking to artists and watching them working.
While experimenting with different mediums, I noticed the interest of giving a certain relief to some compositions and I started mixing all kinds of materials with the paint : sand and small pieces of seashells that I had gathered on beaches around the world, but also plaster and hemp for example. That led me to the flat- relief.
Later on, when my interest in primitive cultures increased, I was inspired by the aesthetics and natural aspect of primitive art. So I started creating my own masks or figures and developed my own motives and patterns to decorate them.
Finally, my most recent field of creating art has become three-dimensional : in the year 2001, I achieved my first sculptures.
At the beginning of the year 2003, some of my artworks became more and more geometrical. I felt challenged by a more rigorous division of space ( the canvas ). So I created several geometric works ( always with an ethnic touch )
Finally, during the last three years, while the geometrical division of the canvas remained, I added more and more three dimensional objects to my compositions ( mainly pieces of wood and rusted metal that I had gathered during some of my journeys around the world.
So, over the years, creating artworks has become for me an indispensable passion and most of all, a feeling of joy ; the joy to create something new, something unique. It allows me to express certain parts of my personality, to develop my identity in a creative way. By creating art, I always feel a great spontaneity, but I never forget some basic principles that are essential for me: a good space division, unity, movement, fineness of form, harmony and a certain degree of mystery. These principles taken together with the mastering of the technique that for each specific project I consider to be the best, are the essential ingredients of my artworks.
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