Exercises in style
Murano Street, Glasgow, June 2021A shop space, turned studio, turned gallery space, turned studio again. A comb turned on its head, space added on either side by more carving, now triangular, a paper kiln, the stripes vertical. Resembling a tent. A container. As of course a dress is a container too. Like a striped Marimekko dress turned paper kiln turned black smoke trace on clay. Shapes formed in hand, vessels lined up, fired, re-fired, adding rose tints, surface changing, risking destruction. Photograph coloured in dye and earl grey tea. The money plant’s rebellious curl flattened straight with an iron. Ironing is used for dresses too, and occasionally paintings on walls. Crayons for children’s art lessons in school no longer in use – the 4 year old who shares a birthday with the potter coloured the flyer. The coloured crayons baked in the oven, now a shelve. Her age is our time measurement for the length of our exhibition conversation. The rhopography – the detritus – elevated to a print, a photograph, hooks on an image, hooks to hold up an image, a piece of brass. Disinfectant spray to wipe the surface.Upon arriving, keep a safe distance and help yourself to […]
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Conversations with the Collection
Showing work at National Galleries of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, in ‘Conversations with the Collection -Surface detail’ an exhibition display opened in May 2024 which focuses on recent print acquisitions https://www.nationalgalleries.org/exhibition/conversations-collection-surface-detail https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/lotte-gertz
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Zone Zone
Two person exhibition with Charlie Hammond at Sipgate Shows, Dusseldorf 9.4.2022-16.6.2022 https://www.sipgateshows.de/
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Weaver’s Nest
Solo exhibition at The Danish Printmaker Association / Danske Grafikeres Hus, Copenhagen 4.2.2-22- 27.2.2022 http://danskegrafikere.org/
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Exercises in style
Group show with Lorna Macintyre and Alastair Dearie, part of Glasgow International, June 2021 https://glasgowinternational.org/events/alistair-dearie-lotte-gertz-lorna-macintyre-2/
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Rituals of regard and recollection
a selection of works from the JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection at Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, curated by Tricia Heuring https://www.macalester.edu/gallery/rituals-of-regard/
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Paintings with legs
A new text by Laurence Figgis, accompanying the solo exhibition ‘Migrating Eye’ Intermedia, CCA Glasgow, 2019 Paintings with Legs ‘and the world is a white laundry, where we are boiled and wrung and dried and ironed, and smoothed down’ Inger Christensen When I visit Lotte in her studio, and I look at one of her paintings, I see legs. These L-shapes have been made from cut-wood shapes smeared with ink, pressed against the calico to leave a mark (a sort of wood-cut, a sort of mono-printing). And all I can see is legs. But that seems like a heavy cumbersome word—“legs”—too cumbersome—and I keep the word to myself, until the artist says it—legs. She reminds me that, a while ago, she left the city to spend time making work in a rural place—much of her new work was made there. She has done it a few times: collapsed her studio down, and taken it away, and set it up again, in a new place. I think of an artist in transit—carrying their tools and materials and the works they are making. I think of these works and tools as a kind of language. I think of Gulliver, on his travels; […]
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