"Reto Schatz"

Schatz's laconic pieces juxtapose and conflate the processed with the unrefined, the smooth with the jagged, and the linear with the crooked, while searching for balance within asymmetry. The media are handled gently, are only marginally modified. Schatz requests the viewer to consider art as arrangement rather than transmutation or facsimile and artist as observer rather than craftsman. His pieces might be seen as three dimensional collages that persuade the viewer of the harmony that can be acheived in diametric qualities.

Some pieces contain a disruption of expectation. What may seem a straightforward pattern contains a sudden idiosyncrasy. Other pieces resolve precisely how one would imagine and this adherence to a simple pattern is surprising. Schatz recognizes that to always do the unpredictable is predictable, to always be mysterious can compromise the mystery one creates.

-Eugene Hwang