Weekend Edition 25

Henri Matisse

Snow Flowers, 1951

You are hopping from a rectangle to a rectangle, trying things out(the white figures). But you don't feel attached to them. They are too white, too cold. You are looking for a passion, for something that could be you. Then suddenly you hit the black figure. It feels right. This is definitely you. It embraces you. It intrigues you. You have found your passion. Yes, you did have an orange rectangle before(in the lower right corner). But it was not a right time or the right place or the right figure. To find your passion you have to be in the right time/place/ state of mind.

Ton Frenken

Ton Frenken at Borzo Kunsthandel BV (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Dyptique, 2002

 Two persons. Two lonely souls. They are looking for someone to be in their lives. They look pretty hard. Each constructed a lighthouse to signal other where to find them( the vertical black-and-white line at the edge). The soul-mate searching experience is mostly a negative one for them. That's why the lighthouse became more black than white over time. Or maybe the search criteria they use is too stringent, too black-and-white, so the others keep away from them. There is another possibility that they are too tender, too gentle, too subtle and the lighthouse is their defending mechanism. Anyway, somehow they found each other. Finally they align one to the other. And now the game can be started! (black and white squares in the center).