BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents new works by Christof Mascher. Alley Cat is the second solo exhibition of the artist in the gallery. Born in Hanover in 1979, he studied at the College of Fine Arts in Braunschweig with Walter Dahn until 2009. On display are new works on wood, drawings on paper and a shadow play installation. His paintings and drawings are characterized by contradictions and ruptures. Fully painted elements stand next to unfinished ones, the gestural next to the ornamental and the abstract next to the representational. Ethereal remains of landscapes are either still under construction or already threatened by destruction. Mascher works on visual worlds in which nothing seems to make sense and therefore are open to all possibilities. Mascher processes influences from different sources; he is influenced by popular culture, such as scenarios from adventure games from the late 1980s, as well as