(Uerdingen 1912–1990 Krefeld)
Concave mirror object, 1976, signed and dated Luther 76 on the reverse, with the red stamps ‘Luther, Licht und Materie’ and ‘sehen ist schön’, dedicated on the reverse, 7 x 8 square concave mirrors on black wooden panel, 97 x 85 x 8.5 cm, in black wooden frame, (PS)

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The work has been registered by the Adolf Luther Foundation, Krefeld, under the archive no. HSP 76 003

Provenance:
Private Ownership, North Rhine-Westphalia
- purchased directly from the artist

‘The light energy racing through space carries images with it. I see light as a transoptical substance of limitless image capacity’(1)

Without forfeiting creative substance, by having various mirrors industrially manufactured, Adolf Luther put the execution of his art into professional hands. The further processing of the convex-bent square mirror into a concave mirror object is based upon precise scientific findings and observations so as to utilise the light energy in a targeted manner as energetic, space-transforming power. […] Adolf ‘uther’s artistic explorations – which in many ways touched on and overlapped with the most advanced endeavours of contemporary art, but which were neither identical with nor came to be part of them – not only explored virgin artistic soil but also sharpened and changed our perception of the world. Their relevance is greater now than ever before.” (2)

(1) Adolf Luther cited in: Dieter Honisch. Licht und Materie. Eine Übersicht über das Lebenswerk mit Selbstzeugnissen des Künstlers (Light and Matter. An overview of the life‘s work of the artist), Recklinghausen 1978, unpag.
(2) Klaus Honnef cited in: Magdalena Broska, Adolf Luther. A Remarkable Career as an Artist, Goch 2012, p. 62