Until Sunday, Yoshitomo Nara und Hiroshi Sugito exhibited about three dozen paintings in Düsseldorf's Kunstsammlung, a.k.a K21. The works itself weren't that interesting, although I failed to understand their distinctiveness. My new Japanese language exchange partner, who is a student of Thomas Ruff and a passionate photographer, mentioned that the way Nara's and Sugito's works are painted makes them special. One of the pictures was a drawing of Afro-Ken, a figure I haven't seen for at least four years.

I liked one of the permanent exhibitions better, expecially a work by Katharina Fritsch: "Man and Mouse" is, as I read, actually a statement about unfulfillness of contemporary love - but also reminiscient of Francisco Goya in a clever and very amusing way.

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