Büchner, Hölderlin, Lenz, Kleist, Rilke, Dostoevsky, Mayakovsky, Shakespeare, Goethe, Grimm, Andersen, Calderón de la Barca, Genet, Lorca, Bacchini, Ovidio, Virgilio, Manzoni, D'Annunzio, Ariosto, Verdi, Dante, Aeschylus, Gina Pane, the Holy Scriptures, Homer, are the authors and works that have marked Lenz's monographic and multi-year projects since 1985.
In an aesthetic convergence between exegetical fidelity to the word of the text, visual radicality of filmic creation, originality and conceptual extremism of the artistic installation, Lenz's work rewrites philosophical tensions and aesthetic anxieties of contemporaneity in visionary signs.