Exhibitions in Galerie Baer

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Theo Boettger (painting/installation/drawing)

There is a forlorn life at the periphery of things, where the disenfranchised hanker to be seen and not seen, to be known and not known. This is the subject matter of the painter Theo Boettger, who by the frangible means of watercolour and ink wash evokes the mental and emotional territory of the forgotten …
However, the sources for Theo Boettger’s works are not preskriptive, and they are not intended as transcriptions of precise events that have taken place. There is no desire to be a social realist in the commonest of senses, but they are a means of personal identification engendered by the accumulate of many different personal sources, an impulse that forges and maintains the artist Boettger’s sensibility. (Mark Gisbourne)