In her latest body of work, Carla Klein created a new series of paintings that depict desolate urban sights during the Corona lockdown. Whereas her former work usually departed from a photograph, these paintings were made based on numerous and easily reproducible prints. Carla Klein paints the world in the way these prints present it to her – her work is not painted from, but as print. What fascinates Carla Klein is the way in which, in the present culture, prints and pictures shape our image of the reality.

The paintings in the exhibition that have the exact same size refer to the identically sized and therefore easily reproducible paper of prints. Carla Klein not only transposes the image onto the canvas, but also the materiality of the print itself, such as the thin and easily wrinkled paper or traces of a printer out of ink, leaving scratches and lines on the surface. Every painting is made with a different shade of blue, allowing the characteristic shine of the ink to be transmitted onto the canvas.