On the occasion of the exhibition Sweet Sixteen, Capitain Petzel is pleased to present a new arrangement of works by Christopher Williams that deals with the artist’s ongoing inquiries into the contemporary mutations of Socialist realism.

The presentation includes a hand-painted sign, two West-German Rauhfaser wall treatments and a series of typographic poems. With these works, Williams refers to Franz Xaver Kroetz's theater play Inklusive (1971) and its varying stagings created for West-German and East-German audiences. Although not well-known internationally as his contemporaries, such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder (b. 1945) and Werner Herzog (b. 1942), Kroetz is also a Munich native who came of age at a time of highly politicized, feverish cultural activity in the notoriously conservative capital of Bavaria. Kroetz was at one point the most frequently performed playwright in the Federal Republic of Germany. Williams recorded version of Kroetz’s radio play has recently been on view as part of the exhibition Christopher Williams. Radio / Raufaser / Television at The Neubauer Collegium, Chicago.