EXPERIMENTAL ARRANGEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF ART

12 DAYS 12 NIGHTS / NEW YORK

DAY NINE: NOV 22, 1997

THE SHOOTING OF THE STYMPHALIEN BIRDS
SCRAPING THE SKY

Mirror, white lilies, sand, mixed media on canvas
200 x 100 cm

MYTHOLOGICAL INFORMATION

The raucous noise of the birds was driving the Stymphalians crazy. Hercules shot all his arrows at the birds, but they had feathers of iron. He then thought to beat them at their own game. He put wax into his ears and created a noise still more horrible than that of the birds. They fled.

DAILY DIARY

"The fear, the desperate isolation in New York, all these huge skyscrapers around and among them one little person," said a female visitor, and Bernd Fasching integrated a narrow piece of mirror Ð partially real and partially painted illusion Ð into his work. Later on he added three white lilies which had been brought to the gallery.