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Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Bolero Bordello, opening on October 31, 2025.
Lutz-Kinoy treats exhibitions like immersive architectures, positioning painting as backdrop and sculpture as spatial intervention. Often conceived as total environments, his works respond to a venue’s architecture and site-specificity, entwining sensual, silhouetted bodies with recurring ornamental motifs, vegetation and floral arabesques, references to art historical movements, from Expressionism to Rococo.
His paintings also carry the carnal vitality of 18th-century traditions, with dynamic bodily forms, gestural brushwork and ethereal layers, coupled with an ability to traverse a transhistorical landscape. These sensuous environments can feel like entry points to alternative spaces of communion, where the synergy of historical ornament and abundance lingers in compositions that suspend urgency, acti…
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Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Bolero Bordello, opening on October 31, 2025.
Lutz-Kinoy treats exhibitions like immersive architectures, positioning painting as backdrop and sculpture as spatial intervention. Often conceived as total environments, his works respond to a venue’s architecture and site-specificity, entwining sensual, silhouetted bodies with recurring ornamental motifs, vegetation and floral arabesques, references to art historical movements, from Expressionism to Rococo.
His paintings also carry the carnal vitality of 18th-century traditions, with dynamic bodily forms, gestural brushwork and ethereal layers, coupled with an ability to traverse a transhistorical landscape. These sensuous environments can feel like entry points to alternative spaces of communion, where the synergy of historical ornament and abundance lingers in compositions that suspend urgency, acti…
