Luise Unger – Sculptures and Drawings // Sabine Elsa Müller Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst e.V. (Lippe Art Association), 21 May – 18 June 2017 Black shadows, bodiless silhouettes that remain still or move very gently in a draught — dream images. It’s not as if there were something indecisive about the forms. Their structure is as complex as it is precise, the perfection in the execution impressive. And yet they have this ephemeral aura. Their transparency and hovering lightness give them the appearance of a fleeting existence that can scarcely be grasped. Even on closer inspection their contours do not become any sharper: the gaze does not adhere to these glittering formations. Their surfaces dissolve, the closer you come to them. They are not so much bodies as flowing forms of transformation that become visible in these works. Panta Rhei — Everything Flows is what Luise Unger calls one of her works from 2005 that could be counted among the group of cellular forms. It vaguely reminds you of a cell about to divide. Unger’s works take us into a world of constant change, of growth and decay. Primal forms that are won from the mysterious weaving of nature in

Standing – Morphing – Floating // Christina Maria Pfeifer Luise Unger “immerses herself in air”1 just as other people plunge into some kind of involvement. So it is not surprising that her work involves a sort of floating. At first sight the sculptures of the past ten years seem like structures that have pupated in a silver-grey web. They have paused in this process of becoming and linger for a moment. Tranquillity emanates from them. They seem sensually soft and airily delicate. One would like to touch them gently as if they were sensitive creatures. However this tranquillity is fleeting – only a “transitional phenomenon”. During prolonged observation the eye follows the inner movement of these sculptures. Several layers of bodiless sheathing are interwoven, hinting at possible forms as in a process of Morphing. The gaze seems to penetrate the interior of an organism, directed towards the microcosm of cellular growth. Biomorphic forms converge like cells before the moment of procreation; boundaries become blurred and fade away, and new ones come into existence through detachment and isolation (Spin, Heliko). In other works these are layerings of anthropomorphic sheaths whose flowing forms touch on incarnation (Schattenkörper, Träumer, Cor). Unger speaks of