Impressively imposing rock formations and charmingly amusing underwater refuges make the play of light and shadow on angular hard and softly twisted structures, with varied colour spaces, a visual experience. The eyes wander in wonder over the photorealistic-looking picture surfaces just above and below the water's surface. The materiality of rock and water, the informal pile and fluff of the water zones, the plasticity of the volumes and the daring reflections show a freedom of the world of forms and a creative power with which Gerlinde Zantis succeeds in expanding her own world of image and colour in her more recent works.
With her compositionally sophisticated pictures from the river courses of the limestone sandstone areas of the Ardèche, the draughtswoman Gerlinde Zantis lets us share in the unspectacular stillness and force of this nature.