Zander Galerie is delighted to announce an exhibition of new and recent woodcuts by Christiane Baumgartner. Presenting monumental seascapes and landscapes in black and white and color, The Long Goodbye centers on sunsets and horizons along the sea, derived from her own video stills and digital photographs. The images reveal their subjects only from a distance; up close, they dissolve into meticulously carved line grids. While the motifs evoke symbols of longing or quiet eeriness, the works register tensions between stillness and subtle political unease. In the featured Sunken Treasure works, light appears as luminous glimpses beneath the water, in hues of purple and green. Through the pressure and layering of ink, combined with selective abrasion on the verso, Baumgartner transforms each image into a unique woodcut, barely resembling the source material. By slowing the flux of light into a labor-intensive process, these predominantly large-scale prints probe our contemporary perception of time, illuminating the fragile space between control and uncertainty.
