MAX ERNST, ANDREW KERR AND KATHARINA WULFF
Transmission Gallery. Glasgow. until Sat 21 Jun .0.
This is an unsettling show, thanks in the most part to Katharina Wulff. The Berlin-based artist makes paintings and drawings suffused with the theatrical. Die Gartnerin shows a girl being menaced by a hunchbacked crone in front of a castle. framed by a proscenium arch of flowers. In Das Experiment. two girls apply make-up in a suburban bedroom, watched by a ballerina figurine on the dresser. who seems to be delighting in the girls' transformation. One of these paintings is sheer fantasy. the other a product of blandest suburbia. but both share a delight in artifice and both are explicitly framed, like documents of a performance. Elsewhere. Wulff leaves faces blank, only to render costumes in obsessive detail, or paints up such a storm of
that the plants become props. Andrew Kerr is much quieter. A’s
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stories and moments caught out of context, and to bring an incongruous artist into the mix adds a further dash of the unheimlich. (Jack Mottram)
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