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For Art Cologne’s Online Viewing Room, ChertLüdde is pleased to present Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (b. 1932, Saxony) in dialogue with Rosemary Mayer (1943 – 2014).

The two artists come from different worlds – one from within the borders of the GDR and the other from within the New York artist community of the 1970s.

Both however share a fascination with forms - Mayer’s experimentation with fabric and color and Wolf-Rehfeldt’s graphic abstractions using elements of written language to build shapes and dimensions. In Mayer’s works, Balancing (1972) and Hroswitha (1973), swathes of hued fabric hang from …