黑料不打烊

From time immemorial duels fascinate fighters and crowd alike 鈥� for instance the one-on-one battle in sports, embedded in rituals and myths, and the idolization that goes with it. It鈥檚 a perpetual re-edition of the You or Me.

Art duels take place on quite a different level. The writer who sits in front of a white page, or the painter in front of an empty canvas, they find themselves struggling with the object of their creation by committing themselves to it. The success of this process is just as uncertain as in a boxing match. Frequently, artists reflect their agonizing (with the material and with themselves) in their work, although it may seem balanced and harmonious to an unaware viewer.

Medics use the saying 鈥渙ne can have fleas and lice at the same time鈥� to describe comorbidity, the simultaneous incidence of two ore more different illnesses in own patient. With her group show, Lisa Frei traces this simultaneity of things that apparently don鈥檛 have anything in common. Laurin Projects is thus a vessel in which the examination of artists and their working processes is of utmost importance. Christinger De Mayo is very pleased to host the second Laurin Projects exhibition (the first exhibition titled 鈥淒as wandernde Bild鈥� [The wandering image] was shown in the Coalmine photo gallery), as we believe: The close examination of simultaneous, but differing incidences in art provides fertile grounds for gaining knowledge and insights.