“They say time is fast: who has seen it fly? It remains unmoved in the conception of the world!” Angelus Silesius
“Immovable”, this seems to be a basic component of still lifes. And then, the artists have closed the doors behind them. They have slipped away, contemplating their small world, the world in miniature. It is quiet around them. You can see the dust floating in the sunlight. How beautiful, how quiet it is. The world calls and screams: Here and there. The artists remain still and silent. Their time stands still. Artists of all kinds open their doors, reveal their secrecy and praise the “quiet beauty of being”. Their contemplation, their observations become images, objects and metaphors. Metaphors for an attitude to life, a world view or a living environment. Again and again, you are surprised and captured by a quiet moment through which time seems to pass. It happens to everyone from time to time. Still lifes bear witness to this. (Alfons Scholz)