Exhibition opening in the gallery of the Caspar David Friedrich Centre

We cordially invite you to the vernissage of 'Streifzüge' on 18 April at 2 pm in the CDF Gallery. The exhibition brings together artistic works by Ines Spanier and Oliver Thie under the title 'Streifzüge' - a metaphor for approaching the world as well as for the artistic process. Spanier is concerned with the graphic scanning of everyday human traces and their translation into an imaginary, archaeological depth space, Thie with the investigation of the diversity and individuality of natural phenomena in the medium of hand drawing.

Ines Spanier captures surfaces and structures photographically on forays through urban, everyday space. The result: a constantly growing archive of a repertoire of motifs. Fragments of these selected, thematically related photos are transferred to paper with coloured pencil and pencil, combined and condensed. This results in unexpected encounters between form, structure and line. The drawing continuously unfolds in a morphogenetic process to create new pictorial spaces. Its central theme: the visualisation and preservation of human traces. The drawing becomes the preservation and continuation of these and translates the fleeting moment of the photograph into a permanent pictorial form.

Oliver Thies' works are created during planned forays through landscapes and on expeditions, but also as a result of searching while travelling. In his case, the title also refers to the act of drawing: the stroking of the tool over the ground, the wandering around in the pictorial space, the productive digression. In order to get close to organisms and structures, he immerses himself in their environments. He draws in the forest, under water, under a microscope, develops tools and expands classical techniques. The exhibition leads through mineral, plant and animal phenomena. Among other things, he examines the characteristics of rocks, the microcosm on trees and the movement behaviour of tropical freshwater snails.