EAN: 9783960701132

ANDREA GRÜTZNER | ERBGERICHT

Artist Andrea Grützner (born 1984 in Pirna) has been working on her photographic series at the
Erbgericht Polenz  a country inn in eastern Saxony  for a decade. The building has fascinated
her since childhood  and its name refers to some regional cultural history concerning
jurisdiction  which goes back to the Middle Ages. Its interior contains a historically evolved
collage of materials and spaces that have been linked to the memories and emotions of the
locals since its opening in 1898. Andrea Grützner doesn’t primarily show the familiar 
nostalgic scenes and stereotypes of the province  such as the tavern decorated with antlers.
Instead  she elaborately stages the deserted  angled interior in front of her analogue camera 
using neutral and coloured fl ash… The result is an avant garde labyrinth of intensely
colourful and luminous shadow geometries that superimpose fragments of space and objects in a
painterly manner  while their magical realism simultaneously refers to the subjectively and
collectively coloured spaces of memories as well as utopian visions of space. The large 
double-sided  abstract visual compositions  which are rotated 90 degrees in the book  create a
playful  enigmatic sense of vertigo that gradually triggers a way to decipher things and
perceive traces of use. The pull of this extraordinary pictorial cosmos is intensifi ed by the
implementation of the extended seven-colour off set printing process and the tactile layering
of diff erent surfaces  refl ecting the artist’s process.

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