Loomit | pasta poodle
“You have to master your instrument. Painting is the instrument of drawing. You have to be able to draw the apple before you can paint big on the wall. Before you smear paint on the wall you have to have an idea of shape, light and shadow and so on. That comes from drawing. The craft must be learned.” (Loomit, 2020)
It is impressive to see the impact a pack of crayons, paper and an exciting comic can have on children. Growing up in Buchloe, the graffiti legend put himself to the test loomit with his spray cans in rural areas, before heading out to cities around the world to prove his skills and spread his name. He managed to make his artist name known worldwide, even in the most remote corners, like no other. Loomit has been active in the urban graffiti world for 38 years now, and his heart still beats with full force for this art. And so it is not surprising that his six letters are still the main focus of his art today. In OZM HAMMERBROOKLYN you can marvel at this not only on the southern outer facade of the exhibit, but also very well in the new rooms of his exhibition pasta poodle.
Thanks to his decades of practice and the acquisition of new knowledge on his travels, Loomit was able to develop his own visual language that not only takes up traditional elements of style writing, but also oscillates between abstraction and figuration as well as expressive color. In this exhibition, each picture, apart from smaller series, stands alone and forms an individual universe created by the artist. Illusionistic constructions and organically curved forms can be seen, which can only be recognized as recognizable plastic bodies upon closer inspection.
The basic stage in almost every painting shown by Loomits is one or more of his characters ("L", "O", "O", "M", i", "T"), which he usually "builds" into the room. However, he does not understand his letters graphically, but rather pictorially, with light and shadow. As disordered objects in the seemingly infinite space, they can sometimes distort or bend and become landscapes. Loomit is primarily concerned with the artistic representation of his name, but he does not just want to paint it, he also wants to place it in a room in an interesting way.
A beautiful example in Loomit’s exhibition, which takes up characteristic features of the comic as well as the previous descriptions, is the picture The hunt.