Lothar Götz, Durchgangszimmer Orange, 2014

'Durchgangszimmer Orange' - A signed, limited edition silkscreen print by Lothar Götz. Printed at Coriander Studio, published by CCA Galleries.

‘Durchganzimmer Orange’, a silkscreen edition created at Coriander Studio was made in response to a conversation that took place between two characters in Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel, ‘Goodbye Berlin’, a semi-autobiographical account which highlights the groups of people who would be at most risk of Nazi intimidation. Durchgangzimmer is the German word that describes ‘a room between rooms’, and Gotz has conceived this piece whilst imagining the room in which the characters inhabited when speaking these influential words. The conversation was serious, but by imagining it took place in the durchgangzimmer as opposed to one of the main rooms of the villa- where this type of conversation would normally take place – Gotz is almost attempting to ‘soften the blow’ so to speak, making the words easier to interpret. The forms used in the dominant orange section could perhaps reference the wallpaper of the room; the more neutral tones to balance the strong palette used at the top of the piece.

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