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"In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work" says one of
its founders, Sol leWitt. Stemming from minimalism, conceptual art can be seen as a continuation of abstract painting that
led to objects, installation art and performance art, thus still being of contemporary relevance.
One of the first and foremost aims of conceptual art was to question the role of the artist and his oeuvre. Conceptual Artists don't primarily
see themselves as creators of everlasting objects of beauty. Instead, they emphasise their contextual ideas and the very process of converting
these ideas into visible and tangible objects of art. More important than the final product is the way of its creation.
The inclusion of the art viewer into this process is in many cases part of conceptual art.
Leda Luss Luyken's :ModulArt can also be described in terms of conceptual art. For it is not so much the finished
painting but its openness to change and alterability that define the basic idea of :ModulArt. Her sujets are open to their de- and
reconstruction into new, modulated images. To do so, the artist lets go of her work and allows for its further development by the viewer.
The viewer thus becomes an active user of art. Modulated images open up new perspectives and insights on the subject, the artistic
development of a piece of art remains in a state of flux. Such further development of a :ModulArt painting is open-source and can be
done any time in nearly unlimited variations.
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