Every day we encounter so many things that we perhaps only look at briefly, simply taking them for granted, without giving them any special significance or prolonged attention. It is often these little things or trivialities, banalities, which, when we consciously perceive them, also want to give us something. Let’s put them in a special and appropriate setting ...
This exhibition formed the first exhibition space in the former photo gallery. It is named after the cover picture of the catalogue, “Encounter”. “Encounter” may be an exhibition in which we see everyday things, things that we encounter, things that we either notice or simply ignore. The exhibition aims to draw our attention to something that makes us pause for a moment – and then pick up a camera or even just a smart phone.
“Encounter2 shows us things in a realistic, strikingly transformed or collaged way. Such a transformation or collage also points to a process within us that links and associates the perceived things with something else, viewing them with our wealth of experience and emotions. Something new emerges, perhaps with a new or more far-reaching meaning.
So, let’s begin our little tour that takes us through the thematic areas of this exhibition.
Thematic Areas and Floor Plan
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119: I. Lorenz; The Encounter; Worms; 1998; Photography and painting
Should we say that the despair of that time drove us to take photographs? It must have driven many a musician to compose, many a poet to write, many a painter to paint. There was nothing other than architecture, from which I somehow wanted to gain something cosy.
Well, the sky was grey - and not just symbolically. It was supposed to be blue. Every single leaf of the tree was ultimately distinguished, all the contours traced: and then the wrong effect was set in the editing programme. The result was what became the inspiration for the exhibition and characteristic of its theme: the encounter (which was supposed to be reminiscent of that of the third kind - only because of the strange light effect in the sky).
In addition, it was purely by chance - really - that the fountain has the shape of an extraterrestrial spaceship (as one likes to imagine one). The projections take up this motif and create a whole fleet in the sky of the exhibition wall. We are reminded of the cover of Boston’s famous album.