»Yes No Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they
stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the German artist's oeuvre - an aesthetic
that Bauermeister developed using many-valued logic. Hauke Ohls brings the artist's central
groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war
period in Europe and the USA. He shows that the development of Bauermeister's art may appear
disparate but her canvas and relief works drawings and writing pictures lens boxes and stone
pictures are characterized by a reciprocal relationship of combinations and interconnections.
Through the ubiquitous use of meta-references the entire oeuvre ultimately appears as an
interconnected assemblage.
