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Exhibition of Katharina Fritsch at the deichtorhallen looks like one of those many popular exhibitions by unknown young artists influenced by Apple design and video games. Well she’s got much more experience then just that and that is what makes her approach very unique. She takes what seems to be obvious these days in visual arts: one color painted objects, nostalgic prints and of course umbrellas to communicate. Unlike others, those young rebels, she does say something, she does have something to say and she’s using symbols in a right way, knowing what they actually mean and in what context they make sense. I am not a big fan of all of her works (some are way to close to self satisfactory mambo jumbo) but some are damn good. Maybe because of my photographic background(sic!) I highly admire her that side of her art. Exhaustive photo coverage on design boom