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	terms:			Ferran Adrià – a Catalan chef – will be taking part in the Documenia XII exhibition, and his preparation of bubbles and foam to make them eatable, or rather swallowable, even displays a certain virtuosity in a very traditional sense. Like Waide Adrià is concerned too with transformation, with a playfully alchemist transformation of states into conditions, with the metamorphosis of elements, and with their sublimation into meaning. And about staging little balls: Adrià "mistreats" melons to the point where they look like salmon roe, changes the form of anything edible by his "sferificación" process into round heaps of jelly. That is where there is a direct link to the molecular artist that Waide became long ago with his plasmatic spectacles such as Frogs or Concoctions.
	Waterpoint
	Blue Dolphin
	Frogs
	Concoctions




				And – as is fitting for inspired working – this dissolution into the smallest possible unit bears with an entitlement to re-formation. Work on a molecule is work on a model, on the model of reality.


				Here something is revealed that is inherent in that reality, and for Walde's understanding this is not in the least a reality of the obsessive. His works disclose the slightly manic side of human activity, a self-forgetfullness at best and often compulsive action in which one indulges oneself when using or abusing material. Indeed, the mechanisms that keep us going are very much in operation when we get involved with Waterpoint, when - driven by whatever impulse - we focus so completely on something that will lead to nothing, as both theory of entropy and common sense tell us. Regardless, we cannot help doing it and merrily indulge in a sensual self-centred experience. It is but a small step to the neurotic triggered by the idea that an action is self-determined, or to ritual, which transfers the responsibility for an action to a numinous figure. In the autonomy of art, however, the auto-matics of an activity together with their auto-poetics of meaning lead straight to the auto-graphics of personal style. And therein lies their authority.













				The text »Molecules and Models« by Rainer Metzger appeared in the
				exhibition catalogue »HUMMING«, Galerie im Taxispalais and Kunsthaus Baselland, Ed. 2006.

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	authors:
	Rainer Metzger