Götz Valien – Lieber Maler

“Haus am Lützowplatz presents the painter Goetz Valien (* 1960 in Kitzbühel) with an exhibition that relates several of his series of pictures to one another. The work of the artist, who has lived in Berlin since 1985, is characterized by a virtuoso objectivity which he calls „virtual realism“ and which is fed by a tightly woven network of references into popular culture and the history of painting. The works on display are all large formats with a high visual appeal. Valien has mastered the techniques of creating perspective illusions as well as means borrowed from advertising. His constructed imagery – in some cases also re-enactments of famous masterpieces – ultimately aim not only at the eye, but also at the brain as an essential organ of reception. …”