It seems to be a mixture of disgust and amusement that caused Pavel Schmidt to return, time and again, to adaptations of Michelangelo’s David and Botticelli’s Venus produced by the industry in kitsch. He blew these kitsch figures up and glued the fragments together with adhesive tape or measuring sticks, or – similar to a vascular system – created connections using plastic tubing filled with wine. In the Giardino the two cannot come together. Placed on railway buffers arranged to form a cross, they gaze in opposite directions, but – as the artist comments with a twinkle in his eye – who knows what happens at night.