After THE BIG ONE (2006–2008) and the large-scale cloud paintings CLOUDS (2011–2012), SKY is Com&Com’s third painting cycle shown in our gallery. Choosing from several hundreds of sky photographs taken on their travels in recent years, the artists (Marcus Gossolt/Johannes M. Heding-er), concentrating on nothing but the sky, turned these photos into beguiling acrylic paintings on canvas. The works, playful homages to the vagaries of nature, consisting of subtle transitions of paint creat-ing a hint of nothingness on the canvas, oscillate between monochrome and polychrome so that they virtually move when seen in certain lighting conditions. Once again, in their rendering of representa-tional depictions of the sky that are utterly abstract, Com&Com have succeeded in undermining all artistic formulae. Individual projection screens and metaphors for infinity, the paintings bear titles that tell us where they were taken (Locarno, New York or Auschwitz for example), triggering the beholders’ individual store of experiences. In their second cycle COSMOS, based on elaborately altered original space photographs, the artists go further still in terms of space. By showing us what is above the visible sky, they offer us a subjec-tive view into the universe and the stars. The small-scale paintings, seductive and thought-provoking, oscillate between macrocosms and microcosms where the infinite or that which is be-yond our grasp is firmly present, but the inconceivable expanse is reduced to tiny precious objects. Each COSMOS is a unique copy and comes as a pigment fine art print that looks like a photograph but is actually somewhere in-between painting and photography. As some pictures are real while others are fictional, the exhibition separates into two parts. Yet, the parts flow seamlessly into each other – as much in the sky as in their presentation. But the question which category the individual works belong to remains. Com&Com (Marcus Gossolt/Johannes M. Hedinger) work at the interface of art and media, ques-tioning these in various subtle ways. For their multimedia and transmedia art projects they draw on various artistic genres, such as film, music, text, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation or painting. In doing so, they put two themes centre-stage: the rediscovery of beauty in the humdrum and everyday as well as the celebration of what is authentic and fresh.Bernhard Bischoff, June 2014