REGNER's work -- secret, unclassifiable -- might puzzle the spectator. His monsters, might trouble him, but the viewer should be reassured by the charm of the lovely feminine figures wandering here and there, and by the sensual beauty of the painting as an object beautiful for its technique and color. As in Chinese cooking, REGNER combines the sweet and sour, the bitter and the sweet to achieve a deliciously balanced dish. He uncovers those monsters. He creates them, untangles them from the threads of his subconscious.

Throughout history, art has created monsters to express the complexity of the human nature. Jupiter is by turns a bull, a swan, an eagle, and the Minotaur -- a man-bull who helps Theseus realizes that he is fighting the dark and bestial within himself.

John-Capar LAVATER (1741-1801) had studied that topic in his "Essays on Physiognomony". In his plates #100, volume 2, he compares a man's face with that of a bull's. Who is the human? Who is the bull? One or the other, or both.