| Nikola Irmer’s painting o.T. (Tapete) [Untitled (Wallpaper)], examines the reception of some her previous paintings and the continued re-use of their illustrations. It is based on pictures from a bar, where images from one of Irmer's catalogues were used for decoration, and on photographs of notice boards. Next to pictures of her frequent model Horst we find some religious illustrations and images of Neptun as well as of various Putti on this depiction of a piece of wall, and also some decidedly pornographic material – very profane and nevertheless in the art-historical tradition of so many pictures of collections. |