Exhibitions in Galerie Baer

Theo Boettger

POINT OF NO RETURN

In his pictures Theo Boettger visualises the excluded, which he balances at the boundary, the boundary of failure, the one of despair and emotional explosion: a pandemonium of modern life at the edge. Free, with a lack of distance and brutally open, dark people are banished on the canvas surface, some are angry and tattooed, and others seem to be in the process of falling or are pictured at the edge of society: drawn with a lot of black and little colour, painted with abrasive strokes, aggressive, excessive and authentic.
Meanwhile the individual fortunes of the portrayed are becoming increasingly synonyms and symbols of an ill society : a world which is artificial and mainly to be experienced through media. It is a fake reality of everyday madness.
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Those image titles, fragments of sentences and pieces of words which are spit out by the protagonists comic-like are placed on canvas so drastically that the viewer has the feeling the problems of the others, the unknown, could become their own ones. The thought is forced upon the viewer that the human is a passive individual who is sentenced to failure in between the all or nothing. Now. During an instant moment. The scenario of the end of time is getting closer; the point of return has been crossed a long time ago.