The non-ticker clock is designed to keep the topic up-to-date, while the person at the table - like many of Balet's men - wears the artist's traits and is therefore to be understood as a self-portrait. Once again back to the "Guest Worker": Balet addresses here on the basis of his experiences not only symbolically a central experience of life abroad, but also of travel - feelings of loneliness and strangeness, perhaps even the rejection, the word GUEST worker as a beautification sound like that. The "Travel Pictures " and "Waiting for the Langenargen'" lead to the starting point of Jan Balet's life and picture travel, namely to Lake Constance. "The Lion of the Desert" looks like the parody of a tourist wannabe adventurer in Egypt. The "Greek Bike Dealer", like the many Mexican motifs, could be traced back to direct inspiration from his travels, which he interpreted very freely in his unmistakable style and often enriched them with invented details. Pictures of a World Traveler and Guest Worker Therefore, you should also visit the exhibition " Reflections of the Naive - Jan Balet as a Painter, Graphic Artist and Illustrator", open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:00AM to 5:00PM.
Parallel to the Art Park, the Museum Langenargen will be showing many other works by Jan Balet until October 27, 2019. However, his "pictorial journeys" are not documentary, but rather imaginative and subtle interpretations of his experiences, which are also to be understood in the figurative sense - for example when he seems to carry us with views of the Langenargen into the period around 1900 or if he plays with the Charon Ferryman representing the realm of the dead. for more than twenty-five years and traveled extensively in Europe as well as in North and South America. This results not only in exciting dialogues with the environment, but also between the pictures.īalet lived in the U.S. Regardless of the opening hours, you can experience eight large-format picture installations during the walk on the bank, focusing on the motifs of travel. The Art Park 2019 is dedicated to the renowned painter, graphic artist and illustrator Jan Balet, who spent his childhood on Lake Constance.
Opening tour: August 9, 2019, 6pm, starting at Montfort CastleĪrt in the Open Air, blends harmoniously into the idyllic landscape on the shores of Lake Constance - this is the experience of the Art Park at the Lake, which attracts numerous guests and locals every year from August to October.
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