About

• Julian Göthe began his career as a commercial painter of backdrops for children’s TV and continues to realize commissioned projects for theatre productions and night clubs.
• He connects familiar elements of design history, creating strangely hybrid objects. They are reminiscent of chess figures, stylized perfume flacons or Italian mid-century design and recall the technique of woodturning characteristic of medieval Wunderkammer objects.
• In his monochrome prints of stylized 20th century dream homes, two rectangular pictures are conjoined into a single piece, disrupted by a phantom-like slab of black felt.
• They present a shift from artful politeness to a theatrical stage. The peculiar sculptures and felt collages seem to ask questions about the usefulness of objects in a given space.
• Unlike furniture that dutifully complies through its usefulness, Göthe’s forms refuse to collaborate and confront the viewer with their alien presence and their contained eccentric inner workings.