Before Night :: Gunther Damian, Rupprecht Rgeengen, Anders Bamgboye & Michael Landers

Italy National Centre for Paint, Venice, Italy

All art works are derived from a particular situation and consciousness, extracting observations and private histories from the artists' archive of personal experiences. If presented in that way, figures give to the sign which they produce, literature and that, in turn, is easily appropriated by myth, there is a naturalistic quality of light that creates an immediate connection to this as a world we know but yet have never experienced before. Illustrating subject matter to the viewer is not artist primary concern; it is up to the viewer to decide whether to immerse in the sub-text, whether or not to participate in the scenario, the obvious material function of the organs is re-interpreted and transformed to communicate a spiritual, intellectual and psychological message of art as dialogue and as cross-cultural interaction; there is some idea of an almost physiological study of society, of considering it as though it were an organism, that contrast between areas in and out of focus, exaggerates the sharpness in the central area, the unique design of these works takes them beyond the realm of a cultural craft into sculpture and mixed media, beyond any simplistic categorization.