Klaus BotheRiverside Dr between W 111th St and W 112th StHeart Four · Location 396 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Download photograph 13Download photograph 14Show all 14 photographsVideo podcast0:00At the far west end of West 111th Street and Riverside is a sitting area and observation area0:07that looks out over the four-lane Riverside Drive and Riverside Park. This observation area0:14has two benches in it and a green padlocked locker at the base of a waist-high stone wall.0:21This drawing was made halfway between the sitting benches on the left and the locker on the right0:27on the rough, mica-infused stone surface.0:31This is Klaus Bothe.0:33He was drawn in July of 2004.0:37His drawing is counting one person.0:42And so that started a whole line of thinking about the idea of,0:46okay, we can't photograph the building,0:48but what if I record your building with a microphone?0:51Is that an offense?0:53And then I'm thinking about your painting story and thinking,0:55What if you set up shop and you start doing really realistic painting?0:59Is there a boundary there where your level of realism becomes a security threat?1:05Or if you're a little bit more free with your marks?1:08I'm an abstract painter.1:09Yeah, okay.1:11Non-representational?1:12Exactly.1:13Okay.1:13Yeah.1:14I never had concerns about security, but I definitely had some very antagonistic, scary, drunk people come up and talk to me.1:22and some art gallery owners who sold terrible, terrible art.1:27Well, there's not enough of that.1:30No, I said there's not enough of that terrible artwork, I mean.1:35Klaus of Wilstead, Germany, was director of development at BCT Technology AG,1:42a company specializing in software for the machinery, automobile, consumer goods, and aerospace industries.1:49He is survived by his wife and child.← Location 395Heart Four · Location 396Location 397 →
