Idylls

And if you look closely, you will learn more about yourself, about the conventions of deciphering landscapes and where the exit is. The essences distilled on canvas provide a short break in a self-created chaotic world that all too often overwhelms.

Christina Pohl offers ironic idylls as landscapes. These are often combined from buildings and mutilated nature in a skilful reduction, as if distillates of existing landscape sections in cheerful colors. The parts of the picture composition are clearly separated by colors and shapes and yet form a whole. Sometimes something sinister flashes up in these ordered worlds with a wink, or leafless trees appear in summery, cheerful ensembles and cause irritation. Conventional aesthetic appropriation of landscape design in the picture is subverted and enables a different perspective and a different light on the familiar.

Klaus Schitthelm shows traces of landscape-likeness in his pictures in a different way. Expanse, sky and the painter's point of view await us, which limits what is visible to a horizon. It is an almost tangible and yet elusive closeness that is offered to us. Klaus Schitthelm works with the reduction of structuring elements and at the same time the expansion of the

color nuances of the material, which reveal themselves to a closer look.

Anyone who looks at the pictures is taken on a journey into a different way of seeing. The closeness arises from the recognition of the familiar as a trace in the picture, which is alienated by the appearance of a distance in the landscape-like color environments.