Fantasy and poetry go hand in hand in Volker Dietrich's work.

Rusty, weathered forms predominate, decay is transformed into beauty, shining from within, which possesses an artistic soul.

Such fine animism of things has its archaic origins in distant times. Assemblage, a child of the 1920s with Marcel Duchamp, vehemently took up this form of animating things, which played a major role in the so-called primitive peoples of the world. Simplicity is a principle of great art. The spirit of the world lives in it.

Heinz Weißflog, 2018