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Christian Angl, photography
Günter Wermekes, jewellery and sculptures

The Invisible City

The photography of Christian Angl displays a fictive urbanity in its partial views of buildings and squares that can be found everywhere. Raw materials like cement, stone, and glass, which are shown deliberately in the architecture, point to fractures in our perception—fragments that hint at possible events. Angl’s images generate a fundamental mood in which everyone has the chance to invent stories him- or herself. Execution: digital print on Dibond aluminum.

Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and its collection of stand-alone short stories, Angl has created a series of 12 independent works that, except for beginning and end, allow themselves to be viewed in any order.

Clear, reduced, architectonic.

Günter Wermekes’ sculptures also draw from an architectonic approach: they exist—by virtue of their colorfulness, their weight, their lucidity, but also because of the space that surrounds them and without which they could not be.

Void and volume.

Massive bodies of rusting steel float on delicate rods outlining a transparent space that vibrates from the beholder’s movement.

Material and space.
Truth and imagination.

Goethe wrote, “The true need not always manifest itself; it suffices if it hovers about and effects agreement, if it flows through the air, earnest and friendly like a bell’s ring.”

The exhibition focuses on the dialogue of photographic and sculptural approximation toward artfully constructed space and its subjective perception.