The steel sculptor Manuela Tirler extracts a mostly floral lightness from the brazen material, but is also able to lend the steel an earthy quality. And although the groups of works "Kubus" and "Waldstück" look like strong bushes or gathered bundles of brushwood, and although the so-called "Yvys" and "Weeds" take possession of the walls like filigree ramifications and tendrils, she always remains true to the material. That is to say, she takes the mass out of the steel, but leaves it as a rule its unrefined, rusty nature with all its welds - in order to come just so close to the grown nature. The "Quakes," on the other hand, belong to the blasts that on the one hand illustrate brute interventions in the surfaces of the metal, and on the other hand become a sensual metaphor of a battered earth: be it as a withered crust or a dry arable furrow. The association of growing, thriving, and decay, of shaping and destruction, concentration and branching, makes tirler's work a confrontation between art and nature.