Scenes or Sceneries

That’s how Roger Lips termed his work where several figures could be discerned. For these pictures only the sandwich technique was used. Of course the different layers could certainly have been produced by other techniques. In most cases there is no interaction between the recognizable figures. If there is anything that connects them, then it is the stillness.

At the beginning of the ’90s Roger Lips frequently took pictures of couples or dance groups. He did not re-work these pictures through any further treatments.

SB 217	SB 021	SB 024
All without titles, 1984 bis 1986

SB 234	SB 235	SB 236
All without titles, before 1988

Frequently the proof-prints (10 x 15 cm format) are only put into a frame or are mounted as a tableau on cardboard. In these pictures the people interact with one another. Although these pictures do not belong to the kind that Lips called Scenes, their relationship is so interesting that they are included in this part of the Catalogue. Both groups are joined by two simple sandwiches from 1987.

By clicking on the pictures you can get large-scale reproductions with a bit of further information. The numbers are the numbers in the Catalogue of Artwork. You can scroll back and forth when you are at the large reproductions level.

SB 060	SB 005	SB 023
All without titles, 1985 bis 1986

SB 027	SB 028	SB 029
All without titles, 1985/86 This triptych, whose right panel is placed here below the Scenes, shows next to one another the most important techniques that Lips employed at this time: the enzymatic dissolution of the layer, the re-working through the added drawings, the repeated sectional enlargements and sandwich style.