André Butzer

at Galerie Guido W. Baudach

Ohne Titel, 2011

The person(the big brown stain in the center) is constantly changing. It was occupying the whole canvass before. Now, because of the changes in the surrounding environment it receded to the current position. We can see forces, events and circumstances that influence the person (the painting elements around the brown figure).  Main principles are being developed (blue, yellow, red loops on the brown spot). They create a moral skeleton of the person.

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.

Katharina Grosse

at Johann König, Berlin (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Untitled, 2012

Art fills  up the human being life (the left half). Without the art, it feels empty, bland and without a purpose(the right half). Art is important. Imagine your life without art. I mean any art: conceptual, abstract, representative, performing, pop, TV. Art is part of the design of all things that we use in our every day life.

Ernst Wilhelm Nay

at Aurel Scheibler (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Schwarze Kette Grün zu Rot 1966

You are jealous how others look at her(yellow oval). It dents your innocence ( the blue line between yellow oval and dark blue ribbon). But from another point it gives you a boost to your interest in her. So you start exploring her(black beads). You have found out that she is sharp as steel, passionate as fire and tender as a new leaf.This is the perfect woman. She always challenges you and keeps you on your toes.

Katharina Grosse

at Johann König (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Untitled, 2010

Women need to create an aura of mystery around them. The woman is always conscientious about her look. She is always in control of her outer image. She takes the created mystery(black), wraps it tight with her mind and will (violet). Then she invents her style(yellow) to beautify the parcel. And on top of all that she puts a layer of naivety, carelessness and lightness(the blueish green).

Michael Bauch

at Galerie Karin Guenther ( Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Untitled, 2012

You create and maintain your social environment (unless of course you are forced to a specific social environment when you are found guilty breaking a law). But as much you influence your surrounding, the environment influences you. Some of your strands are pushed wide away from each other, some are hammered together.You are a bunch of your character strands (the vertical lines) bound by pieces of your social network (the rectangles) you have picked up on your life journey.

David Schnell

at Galerie EIGEN + ART (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Metrum

People don't like open space. They make people feel insecure. People like to observe open spaces from above.When you are on a high ground, you seem in control. People can't comprehend huge things. In order to understand something big you need to divide it. You need to count it. You need meters, counters, gauges, timers, watches. The time is the ultimate open space. When you finished compartmentalizing, you can carve your path in the thick forest of statistics and reports.

Uwe Henneken

at Galerie Gisela Capitain (Frieze Art Fair New York 2012)

Gehend, 2011

You see a pastoral : cute accurate fields, cute small village. Sun, blue sky, green grass - what could be more ideal? Then you see something you think it is confetti. But it turns out to be holes in your idealistic picture. The holes show what is there behind the mirage. It's soil, brown soil. It's hard work, mud and boredom.

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.

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.

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. 

Spencer Finch

Spencer Finch at Galerie Nordenhake (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Desert Light (Erg Chebi, Sahara, Morning Effect)

This is a sunrise in the desert. The sun is orange. Some dunes are lit from the sunlight. Some are still in the shadow. That colors them into pink - violet - burgundy. Looking away from the sun you see the yellow dunes. The sky is changing color from dark blue to blue to light blue. The lines show us the female forms of the dunes.The nights are cold in the desert, so are the colors in the painting, but we are getting the glimpse of the cruel desert heat.

František Kupka

František Kupka at Galerie Thomas Modern(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Cercles

All of those circles is a person. Each circle is a role that a person plays in his life. Or you can call it a layer of skin or a mask he wears. Those layers are built to protect some vulnerabilities, to cover some imperfections. Some are created after some significant events in the person's life. The events can be good and can be bad. That's why the circles have different colors. To get to the inner layers, you need to have similar experiences, to share the same kind of events in your life(figures on middle left). Besides those you need to know when and how to approach, so the opening and the key would be aligned.