Max Bill

at Annely Juda Fine Art (Art 43 Basel 2012)

rotation around expanding white, 1981

The best comedian is a very sad person. You have to be a philosopher to joke away. You have to have those grains of salt in you(the white squares). These give you a different angle to look at things, because a philosopher and a sad person are lonely persons. And lonely persons are outsiders. The outsiders see things differently(the triangles of different colors around the white squares). That is a great foundation for a good joke.

Weekend Edition 20

Juan Gris

Guitar and Pipe, 1913

The guitar is a simple object. Nothing special. You are sitting in a cafe, smoking a pipe. The pipe brings you into a philosophical mood. Then you hear the magical sounds of a guitar. It creates a mystery from vibrating air(the black guitar silhouette). It changes your plain white reality into much more deep colorful being. Together with the philosophical mood, it makes you think about art. You start drawing a new draft of your new art project.

Steven Bindernagel

Steven Bindernagel at CRG Gallery

Untitled, 2010

This is Humor. It always grabs something out of the dark and puts a light spot on this thing. And this is funny. But to do it right you need to be a philosopher. You need think pretty serious about a vast amount of stuff. So the great comics are sad and possibly depressed deep inside. That is the contrast that make us laugh.