With contributions by Katrin Bucher Trantow, Günther Oberhollenzer and Johannes Rauchenberger
– PREDICATE POP – a new manual for contemporary painting
‘The lovingly drawn adventure of Cornelius de Mütz and his naked mole rat Rex begins in dystopian fashion.
In the title of her book, Sonia Gansterer takes the line ‘I dye the heaven blackberry for you’ from the disillusionist poem Abschied by the poet Else Lasker-Schüler from the past into a present that allows for illusion. With her objects, installations and paintings, she creates a soothing antithesis to the zeitgeist. She counters the superficial perceptiveness of a fast-moving consumer society with a rough structure in the priming of the canvas, which demands constant attention and offers resonance in the brushstroke. In their complexity, Sonia Gansterer's works remain a constant challenge to think, feel and love.