The knowledge of the fragility of our existence and the hope for a good outcome accompanies the works of all the artists presented here. From Augusto Giacometti to Anne Loch to Rachel Lumsden and Tanja Nittka: whether large or small, we believe we understand and yet are disturbed.

A series of pictures by Tanja Nittka allows us to make leaps in reality, from the outside to the inside, approaching and moving away. In passing, stories are torn open and doors are closed in front of the behind. In addition to glimmers of hope, there is also a gloomy premonition of what is really happening. You can never be sure.

The flowers by Augusto Giacometti – a small still life – are so dissolved and transparent that they only exist in colors. The glass vase suggests fragility in two senses, object-related and symbolic. In the pictures of Rachel Lumsden and Anne Loch you think you understand and yet you get irritated.

What is really happening here?
The perception of reality is stored as an emotional memory and manifests itself together with what has been seen, thought, desired and feared into its own pictorial realities.

The works eavesdrop on human events, retrospectively, currently and prospectively, and appeal to our individual emotional memory.

Tanja Nittka
À L‘INTÉRIEUR I (Les Chambres), 2016
oil on canvas
25 x 28 cm

Augusto Giacometti
Flowers (Cyanen), 1919
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
19 × 18 cm

Anne Loch
Untitled (Rose), 2004
Sharpie on canvas
150 x 112 cm