Fundament

All the prints in Foundation are based on the same plate. Approximately every other page shows it unchanged, at most with the usual minimal variance of pressure or colour application; while the remaining pages showcase intentional interventions: covering up parts of the image; small additions cut in linoleum, cross-outs or accents, the overprinting or offsetting of the basic form.

As in many of Lorenz's works, form and subject are most closely linked. The book could easily be read as a purely formal arrangement, as an abstract experiment; but one could just as easily relate a certain narrative approach to memory and observation and their respective limits.

Just as typical for Lorenz is a balance between apparent objectivity, a certain laconic coolness on the one hand, and on the other an empathetic approach to the world depicted, in which every little detail of the drawing, every line in the sketch, whether intentionally or accidentally, is precisely preserved in the cut, and every individual detail of the model perceived and appreciated.