MICHAELA HAAS

Together with my works, I would like to show the kindred spirits
bronzes and clay figures by my father, Dieter
Haas, together with my works. My father was born in 1936 and had
had been preparing intensively for an exhibition of his
for an exhibition of his sculptures, but unfortunately Corona
no opportunity to show them. We both deal with the representation of
with the depiction of figures in different ways.
My father works exclusively in sculpture. I am always
always amazed at the ease with which he finds his way around
three-dimensionality. When I invent figures
figures, I'm more oriented towards the line. We both create
create beings. My pictures open up spaces within which
which the human and animal figures float, whereas in my father's
my father, the space seems to condense into a single figure:
Woman, cat, bear, horse - "the feeling of the animals flows
into me like a fine fabric" - is an attempt to find, paint and describe
to find, paint and describe what happens between and within the
beings (daughter-father, animal-human, soul-spirit).
happens.