Ruttkowski;68

Fabian Treiber & Michael Günzer

Info: Fabian Treiber (b. 1986, lives and works in Stuttgart, DE) and Michael Günzer (b. 1982, lives and works in Ulm, DE) present their first duo exhibition Im Gerinne with Ruttkowski;68 in Düsseldorf. The exhibition brings together two painters connected less by a shared subject than by a common interest in the conditions under which images acquire meaning. Both work from existing visual worlds – Günzer from photographs and stagings circulating through media, politics, popular culture, and social networks; Treiber from remembered images, everyday spaces, and collective visual memory. Rather than reproducing these sources, both understand painting as a way of testing, transforming, and ultimately rethinking the images from which they begin. While Günzer examines the performative mechanisms of power by placing public figures in absurd, fragile, or aggressive constellations, Treiber explores the instability of perception. His spaces are structured less by linear perspective than by the logic of visual memory. (…)