Concave mirror object, 1969

Wall object made of concave, square, tinted mirror

Mass: 91 x 91 cm

"The truth is not in the correspondence with optical reality. There is a world behind this appearance that can also be represented ..." Luther said as early as 1953. In 1966 he began to use concave and convex concave mirrors. Later, concave mirror objects become the core of his artistic activity and also increasingly an integral part of his architecture. In 1976, his "Moon Project" envisages capturing interstellar, cosmic light at night at the turn of the millennium with a satellite and projecting it onto the night side of the moon.

Adolf Luther was a lawyer, artist and sculptor and a main representative of kinetic art and optical art. He received his doctorate in law in 1943, but from 1942 onwards he devoted himself to painting and gave up his profession as a judge in 1957. From 1958 he worked with the influences of light in its energetic-optical properties. He created an "immateriality" that fascinated him through light refraction and reflection effects and later also worked with laser beams. Luther showed his work in numerous exhibitions, such as the Drian Gallery in London (1960), the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1974) and the Kunsthalle Bremen (1987).