Barbara Kasten

at Bortolami Gallery

Construct LB-5, 1982

Curiosity drives you. Just as a butterfly flies to a light (a construct in the lower left corner), you are moved toward a black hole of Unknown (upper right corner). Your wings are desire(red) and mystery(black). After getting some height(accumulating some knowledge) and crossing some lines (red line from the center to upper middle), you understand the more you know the less the subject is clear. The desire to explore the unknown really opens up the wings(the red figure in the right part of the painting).

Thilo Heinzmann

at Bortolami (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Untitled, 1999

We always try to measure ourselves. We want to put everything into numbers - how we perform at work, at home, at life. We draw a line and we are pressing ourselves to get to the finish. Then we draw another line and we force ourselves to jump over it.Slowly we transfer our existence into statistics producing machine.The problem is after drawing too many deadlines to cross we lost our way.