Thomas Scheibitz

at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Schlact, 2003

This man is very social. He is funny. He is the center of any party. He stands out in the flock of people. He converses, jokes and very likable. But he is an actor. Inside he is very lonely, empty and sad man. The external joyfulness is the symptom of the ongoing internal battle to conquer the desert in the soul.

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.

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.

Weekend edition 9

Theo van Doesburg

Contra Compositie

This is over-analysis. Everything is analysed and put into a frame. There are no dynamics, movement. The static picture is much easier to analyse and catalog. There is no joy left. It is dead(the frames are black). After you analyse everything, you left alone because you are too boring, too predictable and can't cope with a change(dark blue pass at the left). Anything that you can't process, you shut out. But it is out there(white rays between black and blue).