In the clearly structured spaces of the Nuremberg Kunsthalle, Gerd Rohling created a landscape of sculptures that extended through seven rooms. The title of this exhibition, “Der lange Weg zum guten Bild” (The long road to a good picture) was paradigmatic, given that Rohling showed works from his entire career, out of chronological order, which enabled his works to comment on and paraphrase each other.

Rohling’s paintings and sculpture address what art can be: what avant-garde can mean and what the production of an “art” object involves, as, for example, when he inscribes three oversized palettes