Opening event:
27th May, 7.00 p.m. by Daniela Stöppel (art historian M.A, Munich)
 
Exhibition dates:
28th May - 4th July 2003
 
GALLERY hours:
Weekdays from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
 
Address:
Hellabrunner Strasse 1
81543 Munich, Germany
 
 
Christopher Lewis makes use of a seemingly universal formal expression in his pictures: starting from pictograms and figurative marks, complex contexts are developed that elude any clear assertions. The constrained visual world of the signs combines with the multilayered art around the neutrality and clarity in his work. In both form and content, he creates a tense relationship between the subjective painting or drawing and the neutral placativity of the signs.

The use of picture motives from everyday life or commerce within the art and the associated removal of boundaries between high and low culture essentially promotes Pop Art and achieves a new relevance by the flood of pictures and banners. A new relevance that Christopher Lewis confronts with the content of his work.
 
Biography

Born in 1962 in Frankfurt am Main. He studied film and art in 1983 - 88 at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He was painting in oil and acrylic when involved in commercial productions between 1989 - 94. Involved with commercially oriented homogenous paintings with camouflages since 1995.