Ian Anüll (*1948) is a collector. A careful and critical observer, he discovers objects and curious aperçus, for example, in newspapers. The coincidence of image and text fragments gives rise to flashes of inspiration in the artist, which he usually transposes into a work of art using only minimal interventions.

The exhibition brings together works created during a studio residency in London in 2021. In that metropolis, Ian Anüll found natural and civilizational flotsam and jetsam in newspapers, among rubbish on the streets and along the banks of the river Thames. A blue tile from a building-site skip was the point of departure for research into the colour Prussian blue. That colour links a diary-like work series in the format of the tile with other works done in London. The artist reinterprets found objects, texts and images both analytically and sensually, combining them into pointed commentaries on current affairs. In doing so, Ian Anüll focuses on the powerful, for example Putin or Boris Johnson, on social phenomena, the beauty craze, the British government’s handling of the pandemic, the excesses of capitalism, religion or the art market.