The first spring variation features works by Clare Goodwin and Mirjam Blanka Inauen. Common to the works is an interest in abstraction, colour balance and the use of unusual image carriers, on the one hand ceramics, on the other wrapping paper. The pictorial inventions of both artists come together in the gallery to form a colourful, spring-like variation.

At the same time, the publication Ceramic Whispers is released, which includes a short text by Michael Nitsch and photographs of a selection of Clare Goodwin's ceramic works from the last three years.

Clare Goodwin

Clare Goodwin furnishes two rooms of the gallery with her works. She transforms the window space into a seemingly inhabited parlour by means of a screen, a bookcase, a dressing table, a chair, a club table and two rugs, in which she hangs a painting and two Ceramic Whispers and places three bowls in different sizes. In the second room she distributes sparingly, exclusively ceramics. Through this concentrated setting, the colour variations and formal constellations of the Ceramic Whispers come into their own particularly well. They are individual hand cut and hand glazed, – baked slices of painterly form. In pairs in dialogue or as individual pieces, the coloured, glazed ceramics unfold different moods. These individual ceramic pieces are sometimes monochromatic, subdued tones, others have motifs and patterns and vibrant colour. Individually or as a collective they create a pictorial vista, allowing narrative and poetic possibilities to arrive through the process of abstraction. Essentially, they operate much like a painted image, if one that materializes over a fractured ceramic surface. 

Mirjam Blanka Inauen

Mirjam Blanka Inauen exhibited in the artist space StudioK3 curated by Clare Goodwin and now receives a carte blanche in two rooms of the gallery. In vibrant, high-contrast, swathes of colour on paper called flip! she dresses the rooms. In doing so, she creates a dialogue between the individual works and across the room boundaries. The large works on paper are reminiscent of collages by Henri Matisse or the dense drawings of the American artist Suzan Frecon.