Screw it all! This simple painting is in a new solo Christoph Hänsli show at Galerie Judin in Berlin. The Swiss painter always creates to a 1:1 scale, painting apparently banal items with huge attention to detail. The items often carry great significance, signaling humans’ attempts to defy vulnerability. Works in the show focus on a WW2 fortress, jars of poisonous chemicals and pots of pills for all kinds of ailments—from the trivial to the fatal. His one hundred paintings of screws have been painted from items picked up in New York, Berlin, Milan and elsewhere, and are a nod to the function these tiny objects will have once had in holding things together. Is someone missing this once vital connection?
