The painterly medium is uniquely suited to establishing a state of serenity, standstill, and contemplation. Deenesh Ghyczy (1970, Diepholz/Germany) leads us into a world where habitual principals of thought and argument become meaningless. His figures stand beyond the cause-and-effect of everyday life; some are shown levitating, others in a state of complete inwardness. Streams of consciousness appear to be channeled and frozen in the recurrent motif of fragmented, disintegrating figures. © Uwe Goldenstein