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Wolfgang Betke's vibrant paintings and sculpture foreground the conditions and processes of creation through the medium of paint; the lengthly application and removal of paint on the canvas becomes a cipher to reveal the duration of its genesis. Betke describes these painted objects as traces of a pronounced ‘bodily automatism’. This neologism is a continuation of the surrealist terms ‘lyrical automatism’ or ‘psychic automatism’.

The exhibition "Candide’s Garden" derives its title from the final lines of Voltaires novel, where after a horrendous sequences of events the hero …