Ernesto Lemke wins TV show with Brickpainting
1 November - 2021
Ernesto Lemke 'paints' with Lego and calls that technique Brickpainting. With his portrait of Lubach, he recently won the TV show Stars on Canvas. All channels were immediately ablaze. Major museums shared Lemke's Brickpainting on their social media, and his work has been called 'of unprecedented beauty' on Instagram. In an interview with Online Gallery, the artist and art teacher explained how he builds a work with Lego studs. He also mentioned that professionals in artistic and design-related disciplines are interested in his approach since his participation in the TV show Lego Masters earlier this year. Now his work is hot. Ernesto Lemke sees that working with Lego stretches the conventions within art.