Florin KompatscherDie lange Heimat

“The world is not enough”! Diverse in motif, Florin Kompatscher assembles ten years of drawings of branches, tree stumps, flowers, divas, flagellants, found objects, gnomes, hats, giants, walking sticks, dwarfs and so forth: “The world is not enough”! What distinguishes these works above all is the interpenetration of spontaneity and discipline, an enormous concentration, so that the world in which we live disappears and the horror of the everyday freezes. Or, as Veit Loers writes: “Florin Kompatscher describes the idyll, but the whimsical often becomes comic, bizarre and morose, as with Martin Kippenberger, whose grotesque world felt most at ease on the delicate white of hotel notepaper. Kompatscher lives out, so to speak, the poetic side of the eccentric on his sheets.”