Christiane Gerlach Tako Tsubo – The Octopus Trap New works Opening on Friday, 6. February 2008 at 7 p.m. Exhibition duration from 7. February – 30. April 2009 (31.03.- 13.04.09 closed)
With the Hamburg artist Christiane Gerlach we continue to focus on the sculpture series in our gallery programme. This is Gerlachs 5. solo show at Osterwalder’s Art Office over a collaboration period of 10 years (please click www.christianegerlach.de), in which the artist addresses the octopus in her new works. Christiane Gerlach is working concentrated for a number of years on themes that interlock with each other. In her work the artist deals with the question of materiality. Last but not least, because of the casting process in her production, a constructive link of outside and inside forms is questioned. Her working materials are amongst others plaster, cement, silicon, polyurothane and increasingly bronze. But she is also experimenting with film, photography and painting to create her stories. "...Christiane Gerlach is a sculptor . She is forming figures: Heads and bodies, bones and caps, pigtails and animal,s reduced to simple contours. If you take one of her plaster or concrete objects into your hands and stroke over the surface, one feels little uneven marks and bumps. Some parts are smooth and others grainy like sand that has been washed ashore from the sea. Before we become even aware of it, we feel that these constructs have a story. They are not dreaming the dream of eternal youth and do not suggest creati ex nihilo like the fetishes of the consumer world. Gerlachs creatures are grown.	The casting process that has brought them into existence leaves traces. It engraves patterns on the surface, like life itself engraves the stories on our skin...." (Excerpt from „Umschwärmt und zerstreut“, postserielle Skulptur im Spiegel historischer Reflexion und biologischer Prozesse: Anmerkungen und Abschweifungen zum Werk von Christiane Gerlach © Rainer Unruh) Christiane Gerlach (born 1958) has studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg with K. P. Brehmer amongst others. She lives and works in Hamburg and will be present at the opening. ...From a school map of 1964 with nerves and innards of an octopus, a little yellow alien captures my special attention. It ist he brain of an octopus with one eye and knobbly ends seeming like fore and hind legs, surraounded by a swarm of red, green and blue bodies that seem to project their own existence. In this schematic biological image of the innards I don’t take note of its shell initially. This indepentent existence of strange species in the unexplored deep seas captures my interest. The colours and the imagining of these transparent gleaming creatures set me off to search for new materials to capture it...(Christiane Gerlach 2008) Tako Tsubo is the name of the octopus traps in Japan. german version ->
Susan Collins Shez Dawood (shez360) Lela Erlenwein Christiane Gerlach Heino Goeb Vanessa Grannum Kevin Francis Gray Richard Hartwell Tim Head Bertolt Hering Eva Köchling David Neat - Pralinenobjekte Nemo G. Struckmeier Gallery Profile Gallerien in Hamburg Impressum Contact	Osterwalder´s Art Office Isestrasse 37 20144 Hamburg Tel. ++ 040 486109 Fax. ++ 040 46882425 Geöffnet: Di - Fr 14 - 18 Uhr, Sa 10 - 14 Uhr