Aurel Scheibler

The visual topics in the works of the Berlin based artist Michael Wutz (*1979) alternate between
the fascination for indigenous people and prehistorical research, the Fin de Siècle and the offsides
of modern life in its urban shapes. Wutz's drawings in coal and sepia as well as his etchings, for
which he has received the Horst-Janssen-Graphic Prize in 2011, combine those poles. He chains
them up to complex narratives and creates new visionary worlds.
In his works Wutz finds symbols for taboo issues of society such as violence, infirmity and death,
melting them into organic and urban forms. This exhibition presents large-sized, water-coloured
drawings, which reveal entire landscapes. They are nerved by piles of human bones and
archaeological excavation teams, but also by fields of flowers and quotations from art history and
literature. In those opulent settings Wutz interweaves his thematic canon to disparate intertwined
visual worlds.