Carl
Bucher
The Studio
| "Several years ago when I entered
the studio in Wettingen for the first time they had just been made.
It was a warm, sunny day, and the air in the room was diffusely
flooded with light when we whirled up the dusty sand, the feather-Iight
waste of your rock-hard work. It was in this poetic atmosphere that
the petrified ones stood, sat and kneeled; a sharp sense of anxiety
overcame me. Today I still remember exactly what I felt that day: it isthe same as now, whenever I see them, even if only inillustrations. It was and still is far removed frorn any up-to-date interpretation, despite the strongly suggestive situation of the day. Today as much as in the past I am not thinking of concrete victims of concrete culprits but of the whole species of "homo sapiens" which is the only one in the known universe to be able to laugh and cry." |
Pavel Kohout |
