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If one is only familiar with Benedikt Hipp’s early artworks, one will perhaps be surprised by this exhibition. While paintings with enigmatic stage situations in front of dark backgrounds were initially the main part of his work, what we now see is a more complex and variegated itinerary with small-format paintings in bright colours, drawings with embedded collages and installation-like arrangements of elements such as sculptures, ready-mades and objets trouvés. A metal linkage meets a bronze cast of two hands meets a golden, sack-like structure meets a stereometric structure of forms meets …