Intermedia approaches at the interfaces between painting and sculpture, photography and architecture, and design and typography define the oeuvre of Austrian artist Lorenz Estermann (*1968 inLinz).The focus of his series of works are collage-like works on paper, three-dimensional architectural models, and spatial installations which he derives with a sense of ironic distance from actual buildings from the sixties and seventies. Estermann finds his motifs and themes while engaged in photographic research, which takes the artist to the suburbs and industrial zones in Central and Eastern Europe with their many different structures and architectural styles. His works are both serious and humorous critiques and analyses of the great modern utopias, yet they also relate to Pop Art and its exploration of mass consumption and everyday phenomena. Exhibition schedule: Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, March 12–April 16, 2010 | Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven, January 24–March 13, 2010