Jan Bauer reproduces cropped sections of text and images from newspapers and magazines. In his compositions cutting out of images are transformed into paintings. Bauer doesn’t create, he filters, selects and revises. The cycle “Bilder mit Kreisen- Images with circles” is the product of this result. He uses newspaper or magazine articles marked with red circles; circles which are usually used to highlight persons or details on pictures. In this way images which “tell” different events or situations are put together. Text fragments with a new narrative force, more or less intense, which catch the eye of the viewer. The observer stands in front of the part of a detail capable to offer a whole vision on the main theme, the red circle