[no title] by  Gerd Winner

[no title] 1978

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Dimensions: unconfirmed: 502 x 698 mm

Copyright: © Gerd Winner | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate

Editor: This untitled work comes to us from Gerd Winner. You'll notice it features horizontal bands of varying shades of brown. What do you make of it? Curator: It feels like a landscape seen through fog, a whisper of something familiar yet obscured. The textures invite close looking. Editor: Indeed. Winner often explores themes of urban decay and social commentary. Do you see that reflected here? Curator: Perhaps in the muted palette, the sense of something worn down, but it also suggests a certain quiet resilience, like earth after rain. Editor: Interesting. It strikes me as a statement on visibility, the ways structures can fade into the background, become almost invisible to those who don't look closely. Curator: Or perhaps the beauty lies precisely in that quiet fading, the gentle erosion of the grand narrative into a more intimate whisper. It's all in how you see it, isn't it?

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