Christina Zurfluh’s images provoke a new and different view of painting. Her approach is unconventional, which is proven by her intense play with color, the color fields arranged in stripes and superimposed layers of colors, the traces of footprints and the white flecks, thrown onto many of her works with painterly ease and smeared with black.

The title chosen for the exhibition, “Barré”, stems from a term in the textile industry for the “defective streaks” on synthetic fabric. A title that associates the seemingly flawed “lapses” with the deliberate fragility of Zurfluh’s complexly arranged image surfaces. The open concept of painting she implements and her haptic relationship to material naturally blur the classic boundaries between painting, installation and sculpture.

In the narrow rectangular exhibition space of the Darling Foundry, her paintings, arranged in a serial rhythm, are reflected in the room’s columns and expand naturally into sculptures. The horizontally separated two-part color areas, at times similar to the garishness of Pop Art, contradict and complement each other at the same time. As a counterpart to this, two of Zurfluh’s large “Divided” works are placed at the ends of the exhibition space, whose vertical color fields create separating but also uniting transitions.

Alexandra Reininghaus