Carsten Frank takes up the fight against everything that is brutal, objectified, narcissistic and burned out in our modern civilisation, against what is so terrible in all the superfluous trash that so many humans are about to end not only ‘in’, but also ‘as’. He has also introduced hope in his art, where – just as in Greek and Faustian culture – he has not only made the human race the focal point, but has also portrayed it with a soul. Over the years, Carsten Frank’s works have reached such a high artistic level that the configuration merges with the existential content. This is important. Because otherwise, the content of a work is unable to get through to us, the viewers, at all. The intensity of the works therefore makes it difficult for us to avoid their message, unless we close our eyes. And in such a case, all hope is lost. All culture thus dies. The sun blackens. Dr Leo Tandrup, art historian, 2017.