Bag Inside - Thitz

You and your friends are warmly invited to the opening on Friday, November 22, from 7 to 9 PM, and to the artist reception on Saturday, November 23, from 2 to 4 PM.

Just like in Monet's time, fog blankets London, enveloping the Thames banks in a magical violet hue. The Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, and Westminster Bridge form a majestic ensemble in the morning mist. A closer look reveals that Westminster is far from being a museum piece – it is alive! Faces peer from every tower and spire, a bat lady with six breasts flirts with a ghost in the pointed arch window, medallions and framed portraits drift across the river, while water and air spirits traverse the spheres. The conductor of this cacophony hovers in the foreground, shod in yellow and red, a secret Tom Bombadil of painting.

Thitz allows art to retain its essence, yet he lifts the heavy weights that generations of art historians and serious interpreters have burdened it with. He is a reformer, one who re-establishes direct contact with the divine without the need for any prelate to mediate. Respect is confined to its natural limits, eyes open wide, and thinking flows freely.

The artist, born in 1962, is not only concerned with clarifying our view of art but also with creating his own worlds. Rich in detail, his work takes on new forms, differentiating itself, and the resulting moods become more subtle.

At first glance, the hue of the mist over the Venetian lagoon resembles that over London – but the light is different, more southern, gentler. Like a mirage, the silhouette of Santa Maria della Salute rises above the Canal Grande. Light has always played a crucial role in Venetian architecture. Thitz congenially adopts the ideas of architect Baldassare Longhena, enriching them with his own ingredients and bringing them to life. On the calm waters of the lagoon, bags float like philosophical comments.

Thitz's art has many facets. His paintings can be bright and sun-drenched like the Hagia Sophia, once the imperial cathedral of Constantinople, now a tourist attraction in vibrant Istanbul. Cool and colorful like Berlin or New York, visionary like London's vast panorama from a bird's-eye view, melancholic and profound like the works from his Hybrid series with their subdued color palette. Plants overrun the cities of the old world and these images alike, creating depth and magic reminiscent of the novels of Carlos Ruiz Zafón.