Presseschau 1, 3, and 5 incorporate pictorial elements that break up and transcend the illusory space of a rectangular print.
The prints are in black and white (or rather, again, in light and dark greys, the darkest approaching black).  The elements that cross the lower margin of the rectangular image space (or Bildraum, as Ute might say) are in color.

In Presseschau 1, the incorporated green element is the image of a child, presumably a little girl, with a toy - the silhouette of a small duck fastened to a long pole the kid is holding in her hand.
The way, the pole with the attached duck is held by her is evocative of the way a soldier engaged in the business of detecting mines would hold his mine detector. Anti-personal miines, by the way, often come in the colors and shapes of toys. Their main victims are children. They were used by US forces in their combat against terrorists, kids and wedding parties in Afghanistan in 2001 and thereafter.
The black and white print that forms a background for the green element just referred to seems to show a wretched, half-naked person, attacked by a pack of dancing hound-dogs or wolves. There is something clownish, almost surrealist to this scene, something ambivalent... In ancient Greece, the 'satyrs' dear to Dyonisos united, in their playful games, allusions to sex and death. Is it that we find the same ambiguity here, as well?
 
 

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