Whispering grass, the trees don't have to know. No, no, why tell them all your secrets?
“whispering grass”
An encounter between recent paintings by David John Flynn and woven sculptures by Susanne Thiemann
David John Flynn is showing paintings from his latest series of works, in which he turns to brilliant colors. Shapes, patterns and traces of color interact with each other and allow movement, layering, relationships and spaces to be perceived.
Even though David Flynn's paintings are consciously developed, they invite the viewer to make open associations. In their complexity, they show how color painting can become a painterly language of its own.
Susanne Thiemann's braided sculptures are created using one of mankind's oldest techniques, braiding, but with industrial materials such as thin plastic tubes, electric cables and car tires. Her sculptures move in the tension between order and chaos, density and dissolution, attraction and repulsion. They are fluidly soft, compact and tattered, stand and lie freely in the room or are conceived as wall works. They interact with the viewer and their surroundings, as well as with each other. They manifest the principle of opposites.
The joint exhibition title can be read as an indication that personal stories and secrets are interwoven in both works.
