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MIXED COMPANY ››› mixed places presents at its third exhibition site, the specialized bookstore Sautter & Lackmann, works of the Galerie der Villa artist Michael Witte (*1962, DE).
In his drawings Michael Witte focuses on the city as an overall structure in the way a cartographer does. Nevertheless Witte reinterprets the visible and sees the city from a different angle which one can observe by visiting the exhibition of 23 drawings at the specialized bookstore Sautter & Lackmann. Network structures do play an important role in his work: although conformity with local transport networks of well-known cities exists, real names and topographic maps mix with personal notes, associations and figures. Here, we have different systems which permeate one another and occasionally the transport routes assume a surprisingly organic quality. Therefore his drawing of Hamburg has become the motif for the exhibition project MIXED COMPANY ››› mixed places hamburg city, because Michael Witte understands to bring together the subject of community, heterotopias and different societal roles. For Witte drawing is a method to organize knowledge, it’s a decipherment attempt and likewise an apotropaic magic to ward off demons and to protect from harm.
Eröffnung OpeningOrt Venue
Fachbuchhandlung Sautter und Lackmann· Admiralitätsstraße 71-72
20459 Hamburg
Öffnungszeiten Opening hours
Montag – Freitag10 – 19 Uhr & Samstag 11 – 18 Uhr
Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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