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  • Kerstin Kartscher

    Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch

    Doodle or drawing? Kerstin Kartscher's work combines the pleasures of both. The German artist, who resides in London and Berlin, has used a rather paltry set of tools—three magic markers (red, black, and blue) and two fluorescent pens (orange and yellow)—to produce a series of fantastic landscapes on paper that could almost be the efforts of an idle temp talking on the phone or an amateur artist trying to master the human figure. Even the spelling mistakes in the checklist seem to augment the work's dilettantish, almost kitsch appeal. Whatever Kartscher's intentions or methods, the

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