Jean Grangeon

at Tria Gallery

Lost in the creek

You are trying to extinguish all the fires at once. You fix things with the duct tape. But the fires are popping up like popcorn in the microwave oven. It is not an ocean, not a river. It is a creek, but still you are being drawn by a wave of small events. You lost your direction, your focus.

Per Kirkeby

at Sabine Knust (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Untitled, 2012

You start fresh, green and with lots of blue hopes (lower part). Then the grey foam of small problems, every day routine and tiredness begins to build up. If you can manage to keep the foam in one pile (the middle part), you can concentrate on the important details (red-orange figures). Those details and your fresh approach (the green figures) can lead to a real break-through: the understanding of the big picture, the perspective, the vision.

Paul Kelpe

Paul Kelpe at Valerie Carberry Gallery(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled (#166)

This is a woman. She is very aware of her surroundings. She has an external image to maintain (light gray figure in the background around the main construction in the middle). At first glance beyond the visible representation, you can see a simple sphere and a cone. But if you dig deeper, you will see delicate mechanics with lots of gears, moving parts and springs. The springs (the two spirals in the center) sometimes are working in opposing directions. Thus they produce a line in the external image that changes directions rapidly, a conflicting and doubting behavior( middle right). Our woman has high standards that she use to measure herself(a yellow line in the top center). The line is near her lily head. The latter is heavily influenced by a yellowish spot that grows from the yellow sphere from down below.

Günther Förg

Günther Förg at Galerie Krinzinger (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Ohne Titel

Our life is built from events.Events are constructed from details. Myriads of small interconnected details make up the fabrics of our existence. You can easily get lost in the ocean of small things.The jungle of interwoven interconnected details is very inviting. You always have to keep some perspective on what's important in life.And given the right perspective you can see that not all events are equal. Some of them are better than others. The better ones are those that you will remember. That's what holds our life together.