The gallery weekend with mythical sounds

Chewing gum from 5th Avenue

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Gerd Rohling scraped chewing gum from New York's pavements, wrapped it in colourful tin foil and laid out the small shiny packages in front of Tiffany's 5th Avenue - as photos show, to the great delight of unsuspecting finders. Funny and compositionally successful pictures show gums sticking to shoes making all kinds of jokes. But Rohling's work is obviously also psychedelic: ‘Momenti colorati’ are what he has in mind when he has his first drink in a bar or café, and he captures them in fine mists of colour on glass in old frames. A series of these can be seen in the Behncke Gallery (3000 to 42,000 euros). It shows Rohling, who has not been seen in Munich for a long time, in a wide-ranging show; the artist works on his own view of the world, its flaws, but also its beauty in interventions and various media, which, often described as poetic, are at least equally subversive. (Until 11 September.)