Geer van Velde

at Frans Jacobs Fine Art (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Composition, 1962

Things that happen to us in life are shaping our personality. Every event breaks apart a layer of inside (a black triangle in the bottom left center, black figure in the top center and a big gray arrow with navy end in the upper right corner). The broken pieces are trying to get back together like a planet that builds itself from the star leftovers. The pieces are not fit well as they were before.So our personality is a mosaic of our character and events.

Victor Magariños D.

Victor Magariños D. at Galeria Sur (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Estructura espacial II

The figure in the upper right is a person. He thinks that he is unique. He is self-cultivated, sophisticated. He is almost a perfect circle. But in reality he is a part of much much bigger construct, History. This construct looks like a circle, but it is not. It is a spiral. And the person is on the top of that spiral, building the next coil of History. And if you look closer at the person, you will see that he is not that unique. A lot of things that define him, he received from the lower levels of the spiral (red, grey, yellow).

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Grey Line With Black Blue And Yellow

Grey Line is a normal, ordinary person. She is so bleak and uninterested that you don't see her at all, except for the pink makeup (at the corners). But if you push deeper, you will discover a world. the more you explore the more you are amazed by vibrant colors, wild jungle of personality layers. you will find Black as the most compelling color. Black is the Unknown. It attracts, it pulls you in. The Unknown motivates you to explore. Love is exploration of the Unknown.

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.

Christoph Kiefhaber

Christoph Kiefhaber at Landau Fine Art, Inc.(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Reminiscence

 People are actors.They play certain roles as they are progress in their lives. People play some roles because this is expected from them by their environment. Some roles they choose because the roles make their lives easier. Having so many roles and layers it is difficult to see the real person, the inner self. Even for themselves.