Robert Quint´s works have both a seductive and a disturbing effect on the viewer, as they already convey – despite their beauty – a vivid sense of decay and decline. Quint’s formal repertoire employs painting, sculpture, drawing and collage; thematically, the artist makes use of both the past and the present. In Quint’s work, the clichés of innocence and lightness are turned around completely. Delicate lace borders are appliquéd onto a sky blue background – which looks beautiful, but in Quint’s work also represents the threatening reality of so-called “chemtrails” – tracks of condensation from which poisonous kerosene additives rain down onto the earth.
Robert Quint has made this and others of our sins against the environment into the subject of his series of works “11:55 h”, and reflects on the fragility of the condition humaine – that of the artist and of man in general. In this context, the artist is also concerned with questions such as origin, its cultural values and how they are conveyed. Robert Quint examines the residue and relics of the past and makes them shine with new glory: in his oeuvre, for example, one often finds sculptures of castle ruins and fir-tree – like the ruins of past bastions, these trees are also symbols of German Romanticism, which Quint treats with repeated, subtle irony. Robert Quint is presenting a selection of his recently completed paintings, collages and sculptures with “If you want it to be right…” in Künstlerhaus Bethanien.