(Uerdingen 1912–1990 Krefeld)
Spherical concave mirror object, signed and dated Luther 69 on the reverse, 3 x 3 round half-transparent concave mirrors on plane mirror, laid down on panel, 118.5 x 118 x 5.3 cm, in Plexiglas box, (PS)

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The work has been registered by the Adolf Luther Foundation, Krefeld, under the archive no. HSP 69/008

Provenance:
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
- directly from the artist in the 1970s

The instrumental function of these spherical concave mirror objects by Adolf Luther ‘lies in the fact that they multiply a given reality and, by their powers of reflection, produce a light-like phenomenality that reaches out into the actual space in front of the materiality of the object. Vital here was the principle known to physics that images entering a concave mirror are refracted and projected back into space, albeit upside down,
as a pure energetic manifestation. This is a baffling and fascinating experience for the viewer to behold. For the artist, it was visible proof of the invisible reality of light – a proof of the reality of immaterial light in contrast to the world of matter. Licht und Materie – light and matter – the polar world picture that informed his concept of light had found here its visual expression.’(1)

(1) Magdalena Broska, Adolf Luther. A Remarkable Career as an Artist, Goch 2012, p. 68