It was raining heavily that night in 1989 when I left the Biennale building, I saw a man at the entrance with a raincoat and hood asking the doorman, for a taxi. I asked if I could help. I saw he had a Biennale badge, he told me he wanted to go to his hotel, I lived on the same street as the hotel and offer him a ride. He gets into the car silently and remains that way until…
Acrylic on canvas – 40x35cm Acrylic on canvas – 35x40cm I am Felipe Góes, a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo. My work revolves primarily around landscapes, which emerge as a blend of memories and fantasy rather than being mere representations of real places. During their development, the intended image often dissolves, resulting in situations such as lakes becoming forests and grasslands transforming into vague color blurs. The final picture emerges organically from the painting process itself. While using images…
Basel and Jena, a return trip and a visit to the Professor’s homeland. After fifteen years, I travelled to Basel with my son Gonzalo to meet my dear gallerist and friend Rita Ficher Rohr. I had exhibited my work in her gallery, in December 2007, after an exhibition that same year, at the MUBE, Museo Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo. At that time, Professor Johachim Verspohl participated in the gallery as Rita’s mentor and great dear friend. As soon as…
Commission from Rita Ficher and Galerie Ficher-Rohr for the Vernissage of Gerhard Richter and Eduardo Ventura When Rita Ficher-Rohr surprisingly invited me to compose a piece relating to the grey paintings of Gerhard Richter (1973) and the works of Eduardo Ventura, I was in a state of exhaustion. Not least the finishing of my clarinet concert Doppelgänger had cost me a great deal of effort, and I hesitated to accept the commission. On the other hand, I have always admired…
A Photofilm Japan/Deutschland 2001 30 Min. D/E/F/PRT/JAP/d. Farbe. Digital HD Regie: Betty Leirner Betty LeirnerThe essential ambiguity of language It is timely to cast a glance over Betty Leirner pioneering work particularly when artisticconvergence is such a topical debate. The artist’s photographs, films and photofilms are precisely set along this frontier where it is hard to percieve the differences between the related forms of expressions she uses. On one hand, Betty Leirner’s cine-videographic work dialogues with photography; Lovers is identified in…
Translation from German by J.W. Gabriel Rita: Do you take photographs unconsciously or do you rely on some concept? Karl: Unconsciously, intuitively. I rely on a certain suspicion which I cannot put a name to and wouldn’t want to name. Places have always appealed to me, ever since childhood, a little corner of the garden, say. Later my field of vision expanded, which is why I have always liked landscapes. This grew stronger when, at age eleven, I saw books…
