Detours - Wrong Ways - Ways Out: Painting, Sculpture and Installation

Bernd Brach, Susan Geel, Titus Grab

 

Vernissage: Friday, October 4, 2019 - 7:00 pm
Exhibition period: 5 to 20 October 2019
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and by appointment  Tel. 0173 3014770

  

Paths are created by walking.
In large-format works, Bernd Brach, Susan Geel and Titus Grab reflect on the paths, movements and developments of this time.

 In a meter-long horizontal piece made of dark wax, Bernd Brach addresses the dramatic paths that people take in their great need: across the water to Europe.
Susan Geel uses clay as a basis to pose the question of how humans could survive: as homo sapiens or perhaps better as a mutant in the form of an insect?
Titus' grave sheds light on the interventions that people make by straightening watercourses and places these in parallel with life courses, which also cannot be changed arbitrarily and without consequences.

 

What all three have in common is a concern for the status quo and an explicit desire to question the "business as usual" approach. Without any raised finger, this is done in grand gestures, joyfully and with a strong emphasis on materials, with a restrained use of color.
When can detours be very fruitful?
How can a person recognize the wrong path he has taken and what actions are available to him as a way out?
Risks and side effects of the Anthropocene are, in a subtle way, the subject of this exhibition.