Pacific Coast Highway

Oil and Varnish on Pulp, painted in 2001. 👨🏼‍🎨 Brush strokes combined with a printed documentation of the Titanic Wreck discovery. ✍🏼 A Dodge Viper cruising California from north to south, direction to be identified at the freaky buildings on the left part of the piece. Lytke creates his paintings by directly working on photos or prints. His artworks, characterized by sparingly placed traces of color and isolated objective elements, exude openness and transformation. They serve as a subtle commentary on the interplay between image and likeness in contemporary culture, challenging the conventions of media images by infusing them with a more art-historical significance. **The Car Portraits,** acrylic on pulp, comprise a few hundred works created by the artist between 2001 and 2008.