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. 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’s photographs and collages revolve around the question of the discrepancy between desire and fulfilment. In his objects and collages, Peter Lynen works on the impossibility of directly depicting the present.
Ingrid Scherr and Peter Lynen come from the very active Hamburg art scene, which asserted itself as the German art capital in the late nineties; artistic initiatives and artist run spaces made Hamburg the centre of an intelligent and independent art scene. For some years now, there has been a lively exchange and networking between Zurich and Hamburg, initiated by artists and art spaces.
For ten months, Ingrid Scherr and Peter Lynen were 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.