Gallery Puzić cordially invites you to the opening of its new exhubition with objects and drawings by Silke Brösskamp, and paintings by Matthias Brock, on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 5 p.m. in Johannis Strasse 3A, 66111 Saarbrücken.

The new exhibition, Untitled, casts a shadow over contemporary art and its often futile efforts to create moral or political standpoints on cultural climate change or the proclaimed crisis turning points. Art usually fails. And when it escapes into aesthetic forms or revives old genres, such as drawings or still lives (Nature Morte), it is often judged in a derogatory manner, or even disregarded.

However, one could also classify the exhibited drawings of Silke Brösskamp’s fragile – sad series „I fail to see“ and the overripe, melancholy fruit paintings by Matthias Brock as provocative and highly topical at the same time. Because they turn our gaze to transience and dystopia, they laugh at us as if from afar, from Ernst Jünger’s marble cliffs, they botanize close to the abyss and allow ugly – beautiful brutality as well as biomorphic decay and rottenness to appear sensually tangible. Perhaps they are just pretending to be nature morte, and are vividly reveling in the infertile, filigree, rotten things, drawn out as if forensic artefacts of a mysterious crime scene. Our double exhibition by two artists from North Rhine Westphalia conceals a plea for idiosyncratic phenomena, a lateral thinking in the fog of reason, also a sense lapse, so to speak, because both work cycles also claim something frighteningly fairytale – poisonous stuff in the terrain of our dying forests, in the ruins of capitalism, our formerly opulently decked tables. The fat years are over…