Caro Niederer. Waiting for Returns 30 August � 11 October 2008 Opening: Friday 29 August, 6 � 8pm
Uncontrived images are wrought large and luxurious in Caro Niederer�s new works. Everyday scenes have been captured as photographs, then hand knotted into three-metre-long silk carpets in China. These are cultural returns upon ordinary moments, untroubled images whose details have been painstakingly knotted into lustre.
A series of new paintings, all made in the past year, are also on display at Hauser & Wirth Z�rich. Expressionistic in their style, they describe the emotion rather than the facts of their scenes suggesting nostalgia's distillation of the stuff of existence.
A catalogue featuring 60 colour plates and a short story by the writer Irene Dische, has been published by Steidl Hauser & Wirth on the occasion of the exhibition.
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski 30 August � 11 October 2008 Opening: Friday 29 August, 6 � 8 pm
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski�s exhibitions resemble hothouses run amok, laboratories brimming with bizarre invention. Individually compelling, when seen together his works paint a fictive universe bristling with narrative and detail.
Ziolkowski is showing an array of large and intimate paintings made over the past year in the first of two galleries at Hauser & Wirth Z�rich. The second is a room within a room, a kunstkamera filled with curios in which two- and three-dimensional works refer to and replicate one another, allowing the figments of the artist�s mind to obtain concrete existence.
