Under the title The Clueless and the Restless, DIE GALERIE presents the latest creations of the artist Klaus Zylla (*1953) in a sparkling solo exhibition.
Deeply inspired by contemporary world events, the painter observes, with his characteristic skepticism and irony, a humankind which in his works appears to shed part of its human character. As a result, Zylla’s paintings are populated by grotesque, rather surreal hybrid creatures with zoomorphic features, whose anatomy sometimes feels like an experimental arrangement of human, animal and occasionally even mechanical parts. In his current works, the artist takes a close look at a whole spectrum of human emotions and moods: anxieties, doubts and insecurities come to light and unmask our vulnerability – both the physical and the psychological one. The turmoil and social difficulties of the Corona pandemic in particular served as a source of inspiration for Klaus Zylla and recur in various ways in his works. Some of them, such as the painting Supersprayer, still reveal a snappy attitude, yet there is much more than mere satire in Zylla’s depictions. With works like Ob Wissenschaft, ob Glaube… (Whether Science, Whether Faith…) he refers to a thorny dilemma of our time and simultaneously raises the question: “what can we – what do we want to – rely on?”. In his brightly coloured dreamscapes, the artist paints a caricaturistically exaggerated, yet extremely accurate picture of our society with its many facets and the marvellous complexity of its psyche. Isn’t each of us one of the “Clueless and the Restless” from the exhibition title?
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