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Affinities are naturally characteristic for every artist's œuvre. It only has to be defined how evident these affinities are or how intense one has to search for them. However, to talk about Affinities in the context of Florian Schmidt's work, that we show for the first time in a solo exhibition in Cologne, still makes sense. Because with the particular pos-tu¬lation of a close relation between the works the viewer is asked to understand the dif-ferences between the different groups of work and to look actively for communities (ano-ther title that play a role in Schmidt's world) …