Modern man is constantly entangled in confrontation with a complex, overwhelming world. Melancholy arises, but this has something conciliatory about it: man is lovable in his imperfection.
Ingrid Scherr and Peter Lynen take on big and philosophical themes. Their objects are witty and full of mischief, art appears as a mad science with unpredictable results. Ingrid Scherr and Peter Lynen spent ten months as artists in residence in the ABZ studios at the Werkhof in Gaswerk Schlieren. In the message salon, on the first floor of Perla-Mode, they are showing new works that were created during their stay in Zurich.
Ingrid Scherr’s photographs and collages revolve around the question of the discrepancy between desire and fulfilment. In his objects and collages, Peter Lynen explores the impossibility of directly depicting the present.
Ingrid Scherr and Peter Lynen come from the Hamburg art scene; art initiatives and artist run spaces made Hamburg the centre of an intelligent and independent art scene in the 1990s. For some years now, there has been a lively exchange and networking between Zurich and Hamburg, initiated by artists and art spaces.