Flight mode
25.04.2025 - 06.06.2025
Dorothee Liebscher, Nico Sawatzki, Philipp Liehr
E30 Gallery
Nico Sawatzki, Dorothee Liebscher, Philipp Liehr.
In a time of constant accessibility, permanent stimuli and permanent digital connection, the moment of pause takes on a new quality. "Flight mode" is an invitation to consciously enter this pause - not as a retreat, but as an opportunity to see things differently, to think differently, to feel differently.
The exhibition brings together three artistic positions that each design spaces of decoupling in their own way - places in which perception slows down and the everyday tips over into the poetic. Nico Sawatzki, Dorothee Liebscher and Philipp Liehr create works that invite us to leave familiar perspectives behind and immerse ourselves in intermediate worlds: Memory landscapes, architectural daydreams, melancholic-heroic sculptures.
In his paintings, Nico Sawatzki opens up landscapes of hovering ambivalence - between memory and imagination, between urban origin and atmospheric rapture. Sawatzki's works contain a lyrical visual language that creates spaces of contemplation with delicate pastel tones and a reduced color palette. His works - part of important collections such as the Bavarian State Painting Collections and exhibited internationally - blur the boundaries between the inner and the outer, the seen and the felt.
In her internationally exhibited paintings, Dorothee Liebscher creates imaginary architectures that seem like forgotten places of a possible future. They are silent scenarios, abandoned, partly reclaimed by nature - spaces at a standstill, oscillating between nostalgia and utopian emptiness. Her pictorial worlds resemble visual trains of thought in which time seems to have stopped. With a keen sense of light, surface and structure, Liebscher opens up spaces of possibility in which the viewers themselves become wanderers.
Philipp Liehr brings a narrative physicality to the exhibition with his finely crafted wooden sculptures. His figures - astronauts, superheroes, everyday people - are projections of modern longing: for the dissolution of boundaries, for meaning, for a brief escape from the gravity of the ordinary. With technical precision and subversive humor, Liehr transforms archetypal figures into fragile symbols of our time. His works, which have also been shown internationally, tell quiet stories - of loneliness, courage, vulnerability - while retaining an almost tender comedy.
Vernissage: 25.04. from 19.00 to 22.00
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60316 Frankfurt am Main
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