with Gabriele Anschütz and Carla Nagel
Gabriele Anschütz began sewing the fabric pictures that will be exhibited in the LISBETH rooms in autumn 2024 around 1980 - around the same time she was diagnosed with cancer.
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Gabriele Anschütz, Wandbehang 28/220, circa 1982
Autodidactically, she cut scraps of fabric for her pictures and applied them to coarse linen pieces that she had dyed herself. Her pictures show a sensitivity for colour, shape and pattern, evoking associations sometimes with plants, sometimes with architecture or creatures, always remaining playfully ambiguous. They seem like signs in a deeply imaginative and unique language.
In the LISBETH caretaker's house, the artist Carla Nagel opens a space for encounters with her book Dancing with Edda beyond 22 and other works from the series beyond 22. The works explore their material: leftovers, such as the waste of her consumption, read magazines, canceled tickets, or a hair left behind and, again and again, the trace of her deceased daughter.
"Signs of Life" invites you to increase your sensitivity and receptivity to signs. The works speak of difficult passages in life and at the same time defy the widespread idea that art has the ability to heal.
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