{"product_id":"sabine-moritz-lie-down-in-green-pastures","title":"Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg\u003eThis autumn, the Garden Museum is holding contemporary German artist Sabine Moritz’s first UK museum exhibition. Reflecting on her childhood in East Germany, Moritz explores memories and encounters with the natural world through richly textured sketches and canvases, the majority of which have not been exhibited before. This catalogue accompanies the Garden Museum exhibition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page-introduction__text section-text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003eSeveral of the works in this exhibition draw on Moritz’s recollections of growing up in Neulobeda, a satellite town filled with concrete-slab housing, where her family moved following the death of her father. \u003c\/span\u003eDealing with grief, Moritz searched for solace beyond the city, exploring the surrounding hills and countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003eMoritz now lives and works in Cologne. She keeps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003epotted plants and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003evases of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003efresh \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003eflowers, which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003einspire her ongoing series of floral \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"FindHit SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003esti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"FindHit SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003ell \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"FindHit SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003elife\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW134715312 BCX8\"\u003e paintings. In recent years, she has also \u003c\/span\u003eexplored relationships with the natural world through an almost total abstraction, demonstrated in a vast piece created especially for this exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003eMoritz, whose work was described by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2013 as “memories made visual – the fleeting impulses of the past rendered concrete in art”, has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003eü\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\"\u003esseldorf, Brussels, Paris and London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis exhibition is supported by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pilarcorrias.com\/\"\u003ePilar Corrias\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Garden Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59006138286344,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0972\/6846\/5928\/files\/SMCover_74e5f097-220d-4062-96cd-35b2dc20b69f.png?v=1791285235","url":"https:\/\/shop.gardenmuseum.org.uk\/products\/sabine-moritz-lie-down-in-green-pastures","provider":"Garden Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}