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Parnass-Magazin, Vienna October 2022

We also recommend the Klaus Braun Gallery. Located on the fifth and sixth floors of a maisonette in Stuttgart’s city centre with a sensational view over the city, it presents a program that can be described as “concrete, constructive” or “color that conquers space”. The focus is on material, color and spatial concept based on a convincing idea. In the 1980s, the gallery was known as “art-bohnenviertel” and was already organizing legendary art and staircase festivals in the six-storey building at Charlottenstraße 14. But despite the personal atmosphere that still prevails today, Galerie Klaus Braun is a public exhibition space that is open from Thursday to Saturday without appointment. Visitors are also welcome by appointment on all other days and at off-peak times. Works by Franziska Reinbothe are on display until November 5.
Silvie Aigner

FRANZISKA  REINBOTHE
Strategien der Bildfindung

Franziska Reinbothe visualizes the creative power of destruction and thus continues a thought that Emil Schumacher had already expressed, namely that the negative power is just as indispensable for creation as the positive one. This dialectical interplay is carried to its conclusion in Reinbothe’s work. The act of deconstruction here dissolves the structure in which the illusionistic panel painting is trapped and concludes the process of construction in a final way. This is done by the artist stripping the canvas, crumpling or folding it, disassembling the stretcher or even breaking it down into small pieces together with the painted canvas, thus creating a new, unfamiliar order. If she thus overrides the mode of reception shaped by the panel painting, in the same breath she exposes the view of the material form behind the illusion embodied by a pictorial work in a classical context.

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