Sandeep Mukherjee

at Brennan & Griffin

Untitled ( Composible 1), 2013

You stitch yourself from small pieces. You understand yourself bit by bit. You stitch those bits together to get a better picture. By exploring one layer you actually discover new underlying layers. With your discovery process and time the layers are constantly changing. So the whole process is spiral in the nature - going deeper and deeper and going over the same things over and over again.

Carol Farrow

at Gentry Fine Art

Vista

Some things can be healed. Some things can be welded. Some stuff can be fixed by putting a band-aid on. Sure, there are some scars, but you think that everything is fine. But the things are starting to fall apart inside(figures around the central crack). Gradually the things are changed so much that they don't fit together anymore. The parts drift apart, so they become two different structures.

Meredith Pardue

Sea Change 12

The reason the majority of people do not commit suicide is they evolve. They are changing over time. The things that were huge in your life are fading into an oblivion. Old interests die. You stop contacting people that are not compatible with your state of mind (gray-green spots on the left). But the new things are born (blue spots in the center and the right). The new things are pulling after themselves other new stuff that interests you. Evolution.

Judith Belzer

at Valerie Carberry Gallery

Order of Things #5, 2010

Everything is changing. Family events, people and historical moments are flowing around us like a stream getting around a stone. All things are moving, but the stone is constant, resisting any change, any move. But the stone is changing. It just has a different time table. If you want to the stone changing, use the stone's time scale.

Natsuyuki Nakanishi

at SCAI The Bathhouse (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Natsuyuki Nakanishi: Rhyme '60 25 Mars, 1960

You are your worst enemy. Your mind is separated from your body. The mind constantly tries to destroy the body. It is a constant war. It is a trench warfare. One side tries to attack, but can't get the other side out of the dugouts. So the attacking side has little to no progress. The battles are held on the same ground over and over again, when the positions are slightly changed. Though there is no a clear cut winner, the war leaves scars. It changes the landscape, it changes you.

François Morellet

at Bernard Jacobson Gallery (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Pi Puissant n1 = 10 14 décimales, 1998

It is hard to choose your path.The straight line is not always the shortest or the best way.The chosen path changes you and your environment.

Albrecht Schnider

at Galerie Bob van Orsouw (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Untitled, 2011

 

 

Friedrich Nietzsche : "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger". It doe not makes us physically stronger. Things that almost kill us definitely take something from us. It could be something physical or something mental or both.  But our organism is very coping. It compensates the loss with what is left. So retained parts become much more developed and thus stronger. Those parts are stronger than they were before. But because there are missing parts, the compensation does not make you whole again. And definitely you are not what you are used to be.

Ernst Caramelle

Ernst Caramelle at Tracy Williams, Ltd.

Double Vision, 2003

Things that happen to you in your life, change your perception and understanding of your world. Those things could be external events, or it could be internal events, like illness. You start young, fresh and full of energy (left edge - green, blue, yellow). But you have a disease (upper left corner burgundy). It creates an obstacle ( the adjacent white figure). it distorts the green and almost blocks blue.You get depressed (the grey figure in the upper center). Those white obstacles are making you bitter and your scope smaller. At the end what left is pragmatism and common sense.

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).

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.

Franz Kline

Franz Kline at Richard Gray Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

People change. They change physically and mentally over time. A quadrilateral in the lower left corner is a person. A big event in his life (a line from top left corner that dissects the quadrilateral) makes him, after a while of processing, dramatically turn his life's direction( a thick line that goes from the quadrilateral to the bottom). The life line continues from the bottom to the top. But there is another line, a thin one. This is a physical change line. So you see when the life (the mental) line intersects the physical line the quadrilateral has been changed in form. It is not that squarish, it is crumpled.