solo exhibition

The arteparti gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring new work by Jack Bauer.

Jack Bauer develops recurring themes from free painting and drawing, which are characterized by perceptions of nature as well as philosophical reflections. Experiences and thoughts from everyday life and extensive travels are assimilated into cycles like ‘Zickzack’ or ‘Aescher’, which complement each other in a playful way and show autobiographical traits.

zickzack
Zickzack's snout meanders through the series of pictures in red color, sniffing at strategically naked women, one ready for a kiss with the nocturnal bird while the other, as Dulcinea, laughs at the gallant with the toby collar. The Minotaur is sovereignly enthroned between them. It is creatures of the night and of sleep that Zickzack is sniffing at. It is a pandemonium without ifs and buts, which no argument can pervade, in which only intuitive beholding or at most symbolic thinking exists. Forebodingly and suddenly, I try to understand the dialectics of fantasy. Fantasy multiplies our world and ourselves, taking it and us into an infinite process of change.
If, in Zickzack, a human being can recognize all contradictory determinations of himself up until now and all previous moments are dismissed, marginalized and at the same time preserved, intuitive progress is taking place. And this is how we chase Zickzack to the title.
Martin Titz, 2010

Duration: 2 November to 30 December 2010

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