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Göttinger Tageblatt 10.02.2010

poetic worlds of trees and swirls and lonely bays

" Walk The Line": The artist Chiharu Shiota. Philip Loersch and Erla Haraldsdottir in Gallery Apex

By Peter Kruger Lenz

drawing in space: Philipp Loersch with one of his works. © Theodoro da Silva

The white dress could be designed for a wedding. In a cube of metal tube is the piece exhibited, it seems a little proud. kilometers of cross must be the black yarn with which it has spun Chiharu Shiota. The position of this artist is one of three that currently the Apex Gallery, entitled 'Walk the Line "presents.

Shiota, born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan, now lives in Berlin. The threads are her trademark. She weaves an everyday objects, but also pulls them on painted canvases. Above all, they are similar precise strokes, the objects approaching from the drawing. Outstanding however, the poetry, with the charges Shiota especially their three-dimensional works. They suggest stories and act as stage sets, without the lead actor in mysterious worlds.

Philipp Loersch record sheets of the plastic polystyrene. His line is not necessarily brilliant, but powerful in all of his pictures. The canvas allows Loersch in a very complicated process all white, cut out all the spaces between pixels. The result is a confusing flickering in the room hanging mesh, realistically drawn on the trees spin like a whirlpool.

The Icelandic Erla Haraldsdottir combines reality with illusion. So they filmed a typical bay with craggy rocks in their home country. In the video they mounted subscribed. A game with memories and the changing reality.

Manageable is the number of works in this exhibition. But the wisdom of the artist and the concept of the show makes it worth seeing.