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ON THE WORKS OF FRITZ HIRSCH
A script of Ingrid Zimmermann
These paintings are not designed for rapid consumption. You have no choice
but to immerse yourself in them time and again. There are new things to
discover long after your first encounter with them. For instance, you
might ask what the white houses with their empty window cavities are supposed
to be. Could they be towers or perhaps Jacob’s ladders that are
far too short to reach up to heaven? You will also spot plummeting boats,
whose sails are once again fishes’ heads with gaping mouths, and
the crescent of a moon, part of which has been knocked out to form a mouth
that is poised to bite. Or does the moon not have an eye, thus making
it a fish again? These are images wrapped in mystery, magical images that
a painter and musician has wrested from the depths of his soul.
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script of Reinhard Müller-Mehlis
Formal conditions are interwoven with interpretable symbols, in mostly
sombre, achromatic colour, blended and repeatedly painted over. A dark
and somewhat dirty rusty red recurs and occasionally dominates. Complexes
of meaning cluster together against lighter backgrounds which are often
blue. Pressure and suction appear to create almost inseparable bonds:
the fabric of fate, the writing on the wall, an archaeology of disasters,
leftovers that herald tragedy.
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