Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter at Barbara Mathes Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled (29.1.94), 1994

The green season (spring-summer - the green stain in the center) was before the red one(autumn)(the bottom red part). And before that it was a white season(winter). And the pattern was repeating itself as long as you remember. You don't move that much in these days.It is a winter season all the time. Everything is white, everything is starting to disappear under the snow. What is left for you is to sit near the window and watch. What is left to you is your memories.

Luiz Zerbini

Luiz Zerbini at Galeria Fortes Vilaça (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Modernista Desconstruído Vertical, 2011

You are watching something that could be dangerous. But you are safe, the watched object is behind the bars. You feel empowered, so you get very very close. You can see every possible detail.Pixel by pixel.Getting so deep into the details prevents you from viewing the whole object. You can't recognize what the object is, because it is so pixelated. And still you don't want to move away, you are afraid to loose your "advantage". Information overload is as bad as lack of information.

Terry Winters

Terry Winters at Matthew Marks Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Tessellation Figures (6)

Human brain works on patterns.It builds statistical models of every input the brain gets(the floor tiles of different colors). Then the brain uses the models to predict what happen next, so it would be ready to react accordingly. Sometimes the patterns and theories fail, and people need to invent a new theory. That's why you see several layers of tiles one over the other. And still the world that surrounds us is so vast that we can't explain everything.

Cathy Wilkes

Cathy Wilkes at The Modern Institute (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

Life is black.Life is dark. Life is confusing. That's true when you are absolutely alone. People define your life. People give your life proportions, directions and colors(the rectangles). Some of people are nice, some are more bleak. But interactions with this huge, diverse crowd are the essence of everyone's life.

Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney at Team Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

05-2010

This is our society. The rectangles are people. Some rectangles are extended to make a base on which a layer is built. Those are artists. They see different, they think different. They do stuff that other people don't. Some people can think that the artists are parasites, that they don't do anything useful. But the artist are beautifying our life, thus making all of us better. The artists (designers are artists in every sense) build their work on layers of work of previous generations. 

Lesley Vance

Lesley Vance at David Kordansky Gallery(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

Everyone changes with the time and the surrounding environment. The person (the big sphere in the middle) has underwent a major change, but the change didn't touch his inner beliefs and principals (the peeled part reveals the inside layer of the same color). The change is unpleasant and probably painful, but the person remains the same person.The second change that we can see here is the inner change. .The inner reflection (the light blue figure in the middle) of the outside entity(turquoise figure in the lower left corner) makes a profound effect on the person. The change was growing inside, and only after a while it crawls out(the brown figure in the upper middle).

Janaina Tschäpe

Janaina Tschäpe at Carlier Gebaue(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Staubwolke

Entertainment is an universe in itself : celebrities, gossips, games and new releases. It is very tempting and mesmerizing. It can keep you busy for hours.By diving deep in this ant house you can forget the main purpose of it - to fill the void. The entertainment is a veil to cover up a vast empty dessert(the bottom part of background reds and oranges). The question is whether it is good or bad. And the answer probably depends on what kind of entertainment you are using to waste your life on.

Joaquin Torres Garcia

Joaquin Torres-Garcia at Adler & Conkright Fine Art Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Composicion Constructiva

Everything has its limits and expiration dates. Voyages, plants, history, people. The Time has limits. Even things that you think are constant are to end some time (the anchor). So the key (the key in the center :) is to be philosophical (the bottle above) and to choose wisely (the stack above the bottle) what are you going to keep and cherish (the jar in the upper right corner).

Caragh Thuring

Caragh Thuring at Thomas Dane Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is how the artist's imagination works. From a simple entrance room with tiles, you build a stairs. That takes beyond the shut doors. You can "see" things that you are not supposed to see.From there, your imagination and associations give a multitude of "stairs" to jump on. Because you can put only so much into one painting, you have to divide the dream into several pieces. Each piece become a separate artwork.

Alexis Marguerite Teplin

Alexis Marguerite Teplin at Gavlak (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Boy Untitled 1 (Mallorca)

The boy is very innocent(lots of pink). He is very passionate(reds). He is full of dreams and hopes(blues). He imagines wild adventures.He dreams about boats flying under a strong wind with full sail. He is absolutely sure that there are no problems or difficulties  that he can't overcome with his extraordinary abilities.But sometimes his ship of dreams crashes against the concrete of reality(the lower right corner) and the fog of imagination opens up(the white stain).

Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella at Galerie 1900-2000 (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is Changes. Look at it as a whirlpool, starting from the lower black spot, moving then to the upper black stain and continue to the center black stain.The black stains are a person and how this person changes over time. The time and history are shown as yellow and orange figures on the borders. The lower black stain is when a person is young and full of energy. He has a long flag pole full of flags (principles and ideas). As the time progresses, so the person is getting older and loses the energy, principles and ideas.

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith at Washburn Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Little Doggies at Night

This is Saturday night entertainment. Night(black rectangles). Bars(yellow rectangles), doors(big background rectangles), car lights(red rectangles). Red wine (burgundy rectangle in the lower left corner). Balancing in the gray area. Tipsy. Some  things you will remember only later, if at all, and black and white hangover(top row of rectangles with white figures).

Otavio Schipper

Otavio Schipper at Anita Schwarz Galeria De Arte (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Serie Diapasões / Diapason Series

This is Love.The blue fiddle bow is playing music on an amorphous body of pink innocence, red desire and blue hope. The music is feeding the main body. The bow itself is part of this body. And the bow is not exactly a bow, it is a tuning fork.It lets you to correct yourself  according to your love and hopes.The separate small figure in the right bottom corner is two circles interconnected symbolizing two persons in love.

Sean Scully

Sean Scully at Galerie Lelong (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Return

This is your return home, where you grew up.Warm colors. Fireplace. Everything is familiar. It looks like a box with plasticine or a quill blanket your grandma used to make.Black rectangles are some embarrassing memories, probably from the high school.But it does not spoil your cozy nostalgia. You feel nice and warm, because you know that it is temporary, a long weekend or a vacation. At the end you will go back to more interesting stuff, to the unknown(the cloudy rectangle in the upper right corner).

Arthur Segal

Arthur Segal at  Galerie Berinson (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Interieur mit Blickpunkt Stuhl III

This is a memory of an event, which four persons witnessed. It could be a card game. Everyone has a different version of what and when happened. Everyone remembers different things. The same object has different meaning and associations for different people. One remembers the game proper, because he has lost a big sum of money in it(left bottom corner). Another remembers the chair, because it was unconformable to sit in, or  because it was not his usual spot. His spot was to his right, where the new guy sat. This guy won the game, because there was a mirror where he saw the cards of the guy who sat opposite him (a rectangle in the upper right corner). The fourth guy was occupied with something else(the upper left corner). He had big problems, and needed money. This fourth guy is the murderer who killed the new guy to get his jackpot.

Adrian Schiess

Adrian Schiess at Galerie nächst St. Stephan (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Coquelicot

This is a picnic with a new date. Green grass, warm sun, flowers. You are flirting, laughing and kissing. It's a perfect date. There are a lot of flirting, hints and hidden promises.But something is missing. Is it her red lipstick too bright? Is it the sun too hot? Something is bothering you, but you can't catch exactly what is it.

Yehudit Sasportas

Yehudit Sasportas at Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Freedom evolves

Freedom is the right to choose. You are choosing the directions. You are the director of the play, called "Your Life". When you have freedom, you have to work hard, because you are the director, the script writer and the backstage worker. And you have to defend your freedom from the outside attacks that want to slash it to pieces (white diagonal lines) and from the inside inertia (the black bush in the center). The freedom is like muscles, the more you exercise it the more you can do. 

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell at Barbara Mathes gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

You saw it coming. There were early hints(black lines). But you had hoped that it was nothing. Even if it would have something, it would have been something minor. And then you came up to the black square in the middle. That's where you have realized that this is it. The end. You are standing in front of frightening black square.Other people still have hope(blue squares), but you understand than no matter what you do, you will return to the same black square. No escape.

Ana Sacerdote

Ana Sacerdote at Galería Jorge Mara – La Ruche (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is Entertainment. The big orange structure is the veil. Behind(actually inside) it there is a stage.The orange color shows the merry, childish character of entertainment. The background is white with washed out blood - entertainment is not always merry. On the stage you see doors(the rectangles). The doors are problems, questions and dilemmas that the good entertainment  puts inside of recreation.Not all doors are easy to spot. Some of them are created by overlapping doors. One of them is put in the very corner (right bottom one). Hints, insinuations, associations are common place in entertainment.




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Claude Rutault

Claude Rutault at Galerie Perrotin (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Definition/method 295. the challenge of painting

This is actually an installation, but I would like to look at it as a painting. The brown square is a picture based on earthiness, pragmatism that is a representative art.   The read square (hardly seen) is abstract art.The representative art is relatively easy to identify, create and consume. The abstract art on the other hand is hard to conceptualize, you need really look hard for it. You have to have an insight.