Sorcha Dallas

Julian Göthe exhibits courtesy of Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.

Straddling shadowy pragmatic boundaries where bourgeois interiors and movie sets merge, Julian Gothe’s creations of folded paper, metal and glass draw inspiration on from the idiosyncratic world’s of ‘post-functional’ interior design. His works have been described as a form of deadly furniture radiating both joy and threat. They include Darkness has reached its end (2004), a sculpture made of chiffon gathered and shrouded over insect-like metal scaffolds, a graceful black widow monument to Gilbert Poillerat and the anxious science fiction prophets of 1950s horror films. Elsewhere, a long-standing interest in bodybuilding and design is unravelled in glass vitrines adorned with photo silk screens of pneumatic hyper-masculine somatotypes and flowing abstract ink drawings.