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In his second solo exhibition at Kirchgasse, Philipp Schwalb presents a series of new landscapes and figure paintings. Each of these works consists of a landscape with specific characteristics (North or South Pole, desert, primeval forest), a group of naked figures and the respective activities (collecting, reading on the phone, ice fishing, showing fruit) they perform. In their nudity, the characters seem exposed, isolated and self-centered. Place, figure and activity remain schematically separate sub-components, which - like concepts of argumentation - Philipp Schwalb unites in each work in …