Doppelmensch

Martin Assig
Martin Assig has been working on his St. Paul series since 2009, referencing Paul Klee who used multiple styles and motifs side by side in his work. The St Paul series a sanctuary in which Martin Assig can refer to other artists and his own work and can range from concrete human figures to abstract patterns and forms. The essentials of life are central; how does man relate to the other, the world, life and death. He manages to depict these serious themes in a moving way, often with a lightness and humour that lifts the viewer.

Dirk Zoete
Dirk Zoete (1969) also works in series; after his drawings of theatrical stages with human figures, buildings and constructions on them, he started his series Study for Cactus Species and then Cactus Derivatives. In these, Zoete plays with abstract basic forms with which he reinvents the cactus and can transform organic forms into, for instance, a kind of machine with blades. In recent years, Dirk Zoete has also been making more and more spatial work, stylised human figures again constructed from geometric shapes. They are sort of distant cousins of Kazimir Malevich's suprematist figures or the costumes from Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet. Their utter simplicity and playfulness move the viewer.