Osterwalder's Art Office

Christiane Gerlach Raumaufnahme(Taking up space) - Installation of new works Opening, Friday 3. June 7 p.m. Duration of the show 4.– 30.June 2005 Artist Special Project Space Rehmstr. 3 a, 22299 Hamburg
Alongside the shows in the Gallery, Osterwalders Art Office is presenting in a new loftspace in Winterhude (Rehmstr. 3a) special space-specific projects, that will also enable international artists of the Gallery to produce and present their work in the same space. The kick-off in the socalled Artist Special Project Space (ASPS) is by the Hamburg artist Christiane Gerlach. Raumaufnahme is telling two stories that have been initiated by two old paintings intriguing Gerlach. One is Diana the hunting godess amidst the hunted down venison (undated) by Jan Fyt 1611-1661, and the other being the Studio wall by Adolph Menzel of 1872. The objects are taking the space, are stepping out of the painting and, transforming into corpus. The pictures are telling further stories. Todays stories, yesterdays stories, newspaper-lines. They become tangled with Dianas stories and her dogs, there is prey, or is it victims. Why are there so many dogs? What is the pack of hounds up to, and why are the cubs running after Diana? This is the next story. Christiane Gerlach is working concentrated for a number of years on themes that interlock with each other. In Raumaufnahme she is using for the first time consciously works by other artists to give her a starting point for her stories. She weaves them forth like a web in the search of connections to her own every day life. Her working materials are plaster, cement, wax and latex which she uses often in the casting method. But she is also working with paper, photography and film, as well as painting and drawing, to tell her stories.	...The story of a picture quickly told, or not. Diana dressed in red amidst her hounds,. the left breast bare, the dog under her hand she is stroking is fixating her bare busom. Child, suckling, lover or the to be domesticated wolfs-cub. Ancestor of all domesticated dogs.? What does the painter want to tell us? Or Diana, is she like the brought down game? Parallel scene: A dog lifts its snout, is taking up scent, only a few inches are separating him from the up-side down hanging Hare. Both nozzle on nozzle. Holding the bow... stories come to my mind, rabbit stories..... ....Death masks, plaster cast models, a mans torso, a womans torso and a dogs head. The picture fascinates me for a long time. In the publication for the show in the Hamburger Kunsthalle I am reading on p. 8:...“Animals that were used as models were either already dead or doped...“ and further ...„ it (the picture) allows an undisguised and intimate view into the studio of the artist and the sensibility of his perception...“ Which status can these fragments receive, these fragments of beautiful and at the same time frightening reality...“ (Christiane Gerlach in April 2005) Christiane Gerlach (born 1958) has studied art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg in the class of K. P. Brehmer. She works and lives in Hamburg. german version
Heino Goeb Shez Dawood (shez360) Lela Erlenwein Christiane Gerlach Vanessa Grannum Kevin Francis Gray Richard Hartwell Tim Head 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