Silver Lining flat lining: Michael Wutz Curated by Till Richter August 10 - September 22,  2007    Opening Reception: Friday, August 10, 2007 6 - 9 PM Artist Lecture: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2 PM, spread by Emily's Catering

Silver Lining flat lining is the biggest body of works to date by German artist Michael Wutz. The complex includes three large scale paintings, one large scale etching, a series of four triptychs of graphite on paper and two series of almost one hundred Polaroid format etchings and hand-painted etchings. Finally, he combines these media into a video installation. Wutz’s powerful images show a quasi-apocalyptic vision of our world close to flat lining. As fantastic as the images might seem, they possess an eerie familiarity, probably because they are drawn from news media or books like the blind-folded man about to be executed or the headhunter tree from India.

However sinister, Wutz leaves us the famous silver lining of hope through the sheer beauty of his works and the stupendous craftsmanship and poetry of his metaphors when he turns the devastating force of a tornado into jubilatory lights in a twilight sky.

Michael Wutz will be a Guest Artist in Printmaking at the University of Texas at Austin during his exhibition. He will give a lecture at U.T in early September.