Although we are called upon to suspend our regular business operations for an indefinite period of time, we naturally wish to fulfil our responsibility towards the artists. In doing so, we are also building on your trust and participation with the aim of ensuring that we all survive this extraordinary situation as best we can.

So we use the time and visit our artists in their studios during the nights and weeks. We will look at the latest productions, which unfortunately cannot be shown in exhibitions right now. You may be curious!

In the form of a continuous series we always offer you one or two new works by an artist for purchase.

We start with MARLEN LETETZKI.

Now in the fourth week PAUL PRETZER finds himself in an exceptional situation in his much loved life and work place Barcelona. His favourite city has been quarantined with a tightened curfew.

Now he only commutes between kitchen, bathroom, bed, his studio and the time out with his wife on the small roof terrace.

Paul, who, like a seismograph, takes in the sensitivities of his environment, transforms them into pictures and expresses them with oil, tempera and acrylic in his very own visual language, has sent us the following works fresh from his studio ...

We continue our SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURITE ARTIST series with a presentation by JENNY MICHEL.

The Berlin studio is currently producing the new works for her large institutional survey exhibition in autumn at the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen under the direction of Dr. Ina Dinter.

The artist combines her drawings, printing and photographic techniques, texts, and objects into complex series of works in a wide variety of media. She weaves her philosophical and scientific reflections into dreamy, visionary narratives about an imaginary post-anthropocentric age.

Jenny Michel's latest series of works, "How We move through Time and Space" or "Lichens & Cracks", are based on photographs of abandoned places or "lichens" such as poster remains on power boxes, etc.

These remnants of civilization grow together in the printing and drawing process to form new structures in which fragments of meaning, some of which are still legible, are recognizable as image and word fragments, only to disappear again before our eyes into the thicket of image layers.

"Everything Flows" - that's the title of the currently first big solo performance of WOLFGANG FLAD in Taipei/ Taiwan. Thus Wolfgang Flad continues to transform the free gestural quotation to non-figurative painting with pure lightness into the flowing energy and movement of an organic abstraction. This is also the artist's central theme: "The Eternal Transformation of Being".

In our series SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURITE ARTIST we present new works by Wolfgang Flad, including two new picture relief works from his series "Shift". Based on the principle of layering, here the artist combines several duochrome-lacquered wooden panels in one picture field.

We also present one of Wolfgang Flad's rare, very fine bronze sculptures entitled "Choo". The noticeable dynamics of his wooden reliefs also fascinate in his sculptures. Their materiality leads him through manifold breaks and hollow spaces to the limits of "disembodiment" (Marc Wellmann, curator).

"I drive to Walthamstow Marshes with the dogs, feel lucky to have this big landscape, we see kingfishes, grass snakes, owls and stoats. Come home and feed them then get on my bike and cycle 2 kilometres to the studio in urban East London. The charity, SPACE, who run 20 studios for artists have kept the buildings open during the pandemic. We artists don’t really bump into each other though we know who is in as we see each other’s bikes outside our closed doors. The studio has been a god-send as I can shut myself away all day and paint, same as normal really. The streets now are really quiet, no cars even though outside is social housing, there’s only the odd bird singing. "

GL Brierley