Victor Vasarely

at William Weston Gallery Ltd( TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Kapolna - Réponses à Vasarely. Replies to Vasarely, 1973

 It's a box. You are looking inside the box.Usually you hear: "Think outside the box". But life in the box is not as easy as it seems. The inside is not a big empty space. It is sets and sets of collections of other smaller boxes, figures and shapes. It is a difficult task to arrange them, so they fit into a nice pattern.And for those who want to go outside, there are always doors. You just need to find them (orange and violet figures).

Imi Knoebel

Imi Knoebel at Von Bartha (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Lina-Liza-Strasse 4, 2000

The human brain always looks for patterns and logical explanation of the world. If you glance at the picture, you will try subconsciously to arrange the rectangles into a straight grid. But they are not straight. Some go this way, some stick out. Yes, Nature has its own laws, but it has so many exceptions that the exceptions become the new law. There is no justice in the nature, only a chance. You can draw a yellow card, you can get lucky and draw a white card (or no card at all). But there are cases when you get the black card. It is not fair, it is random.

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.