I know nothing about Michael Lentz or his drawings and God knows I’ve tried. Whenever I come across work I like I often spend hours, if necessary, looking, searching, for some scrap of information; a biog, a statement, a fragment of history, anything at all that gives me some idea of the artist, an insight into their processes, inspirations, a point to start from. A point of departure. But with Mr Lentz there is nothing.
So what do I have, what do I know? He’s German, is a wonderful draftsman and has a dark disposition that leads him to create these wonderful compositions that have a sense of death about them, look like death shrouds. The women are voluptuous, erotic and their posture and stillness have a classic nature, are timeless, are overpowering, strong and transformed into an ideal of womanhood. What’s more I love his use of red and black, a chromatic device that points to more contemporary aesthetics; street art, graphic novels, posters and graffiti.
I only wish I could find out more, see more, know more.