Rabus Family Solo Exhibition: "New Works" Presentation: May 20 to June 26 at Laurent Godin Gallery. The father Alex Rabus (born 1944) and mother Renat Rabus (born 1950), along with eldest son Till (born 1975) and youngest son Leopold (born 1977), are an extraordinary artist family from Switzerland, forming a rare family team in the contemporary art world. Their four sensitive works possess a peculiar, quirky, serious, yet somewhat joyful consistency, each maintaining distance and style within their unity, displaying a unique taste and tone amidst rigor.

Alex Rabus excels in drawing, painting, and sculpture within the tradition of the contemporary academy. Starting from photographic images, his series of large, highly expressive drawings such as "Mother's Tree" or "Playing the Flute" feature rigorous architectural structures filled with numerous complex figures and natural elements. Within subtle transparent spatial layers, they evoke an overlapping sense of mystery, as if another vitality hides beneath the surface. In addition, sculptures like "Dog on the Balcony" and "Struggle with the Dog" explore the relationship between humans and nature, war, or modern architecture.

Renat Rabus, adhering to feminine delicacy and innate capability, engages in traditional intricate embroidery creation within an artificial Baroque style, as seen in "Family Dinner" or "Winterreise," the latter inspired by Schubert's music. Her poetic "Vanishing Dolls" recalls her childhood cloth dolls. For Renat, winter embroidery serves as a form of meditation; when the weather is fine, she dedicates more time to her vibrant gardens.

Till specializes in photorealistic painting within the American Superrealist tradition. Favoring Dalí's surrealist atmosphere, all his inspiration comes from daily life, such as the "Surrealist Camping Lunch" series. With masterful technique, he sensitively utilizes Dalí's surreal compositional structures to present an extraordinary dreamscape and imaginative space.

Leopold approaches Till's surreal contexts; through deformation and magical combinations, his work often resembles poetic pastoral tunes, presenting multiple temporal scenes recorded in types of frozen time, such as the painting "July 31." Most striking, however, is Leopold's "Sparkles of Candy" drawings and object installation. Comprising 50 small drawings of fingers combined extraordinarily with diverse objects like hair, thread, and plastic flowers, it constructs a surreal context and imaginative space, expressing sensitivity between the present and memory, poetry and metaphor.

These bizarre paintings and installations that reconstruct reality are not only magical but also exude a sense of sadness, ultimately revealing an overview and distortion of reality through memory.