From October 29th till November 16th the artists Krassimir Terziev (Sofia) and Ottjörg A.C. (Berlin) will curate together a show using different media from two perspectives on the same topic. While Terziev questions the topic of control and insight from the viewpoint of rationality as a consequence of the Renaissance, A.C. addresses the control through the mixture of feelings, spirits, and science introduced by Romanticism.
The series “Central” by Krassimir Terziev plays with the central perspective epitomized by the Renaissance system of rendering three-dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. Each image in the series draws on the geometry of power, of people guarded and people guarding other people, on the ambiguity between safety and control. Each image renders human bodies drawn and contained in the surrounding geometry.
In the “Sandmann´s ear,” by Ottjörg A.C. the artist refers to the German author E.T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822), a fantastic romanticist whos 250th birthday will be celebrated in January.
Hoffmann is an artist for whom the boundaries between future and tradition, reality and fantasy are inextricably linked - in a way that few manage to achieve. With the project “Sandman's Ear”, Ottjörg A. C. recreates Hoffmann's experiential space by means of a video installation. On three projection screens with images from southern Brazil, where Ottjörg lived from 2013 to 2019, Hoffmann's Napoleonic period is brought to life with images from today. The Sandman has lost none of its topicality.
Using sound collages and video projections from Brazil, Ottjörg shows excerpts focusing the gaze, from “The Sandman” by E.T.A. Hoffmann. In “The Land of the Future” (Stefan Zweig) more openly than almost anywhere else, traditions inspire in Brazil, even those that destroy hope for the future. Here, dreams are born, slowly raised from the content and finally swallowed by reality.
But in keeping with the tropics, as well as German Romanticism, the destruction gives rise to many new dreams and fantastic phenomena.
