red tree painter Darek Kondefer

Must you stand like this in mourning white? Unshielded, you accept the dry rot of admiration, whereas the east wind incessantly moistens your fear. The cobweb of your roots tied up your happiness. You are still waiting for His breath. The Tent of Meeting will no longer protect you, and you will start to dress in green of the desert sand. His death agony made the metal dry, and seven arms disappeared in the dust of clouds. There is nobody out there.

My reflections on art, collectors, marchers and contemporary art auctions

GALLERIES; Pace Gallery, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Goodman Gallery, Victoria Miro, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, 303 Gallery, Luhring Augustine, Matthew Marks Gallery, Akinci, Amsterdam; Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen; Artelier, Graz; Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; Blain I Southern, Berlin/London; Jean Brolly, Paris; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London/Hong Kong; Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz; Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Charim, Vienna; Conrads, Düsseldorf; Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing/Les Moulins/Havana; Crone, Vienna/Berlin; Massimo de Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong; Erika Deák, Budapest; DEWEER, Otegem; DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin; EIGEN + ART, Berlin/Leipzig; FILIALE, Frankfurt; Forsblom, Stockholm/Helsinki; Laurent Godin, Paris; Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt; Karsten Greve, Cologne/Paris/; Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf; Nino Mier, Los Angeles; Vera Munro, Hamburg; nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne; Neon Parc, Melbourne; NEU, Berlin; Carolina Nitsch, New York; Nosbaum Reding, Luxemburg; Nathalie Obadia, Brussels/Paris; Alexander Ochs, Berlin; Priska Pasquer, Cologne; Pearl Lam, Hong Kong/Shanghai/Singapore; Giorgio Persano, Turin; Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf; Produzentengalerie, Hamburg; Thomas Rehbein, Cologne; Petra Rinck, Düsseldorf; Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris/London; Philipp von Rosen, Cologne; Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney; Aurel Scheibler, Berlin; Brigitte Schenk, Cologne; Anke Schmidt, Cologne; SCHÖNEWALD, Düsseldorf; Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich; Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf; Slewe, Amsterdam; Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London/Los Angeles; Paul Stolper, London; Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf; TSuzanne Tarasiève, Paris; Daniel Templon, Paris/Brussels; Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck/Vienna; VAN HORN, Düsseldorf; Wentrup, Berlin; Michael Werner, Cologne/London/New York; White Cube, London/Hong Kong/New York; Zilberman, Istanbul/Berlin; David Zwirner, New York/London/Hong Kong