Lukas Birk...

Construction layers

Lukas has been living on and off in Beijing for several years. The immensity of constructions, reformation, materials, walls, cranes, trucks and workers forming the city scape of Beijing and literally all cities in China is a sight very hard to render. He started to record some of these building sites in 2009. Photographically, with sketches or simply by actively looking at them. He then started a first collage on a thick acrylic board with spray paint, lacker and pencil. (Nr.3/4 in the slideshow. He applied several layers of print (silkscreen and a digital high pressure heat print) onto the board. Following several layers of lacker and spray paint. The result very much resembled Lukas' feelings towards these enormous impressions blurred by Beijing life and its fast growing environment. This first piece was a starting point for a two years journey of layering his construction memory onto flat surfaces. Acrylic boards, canvas, paper, silkscreen, etching, oil and acrylic paint, digital print, spray paint and pencil are some of the techniques and materials used in this series.