Produkt
KlappentextThe lost Paradise
The facelessness of the protagonists in Josef Zekoff´s paintings is one of their most distinctive features. From emblematic labyrinths - he does also paint ornaments and maps - to drawn stick figures, the in-between space occupied by these paintings encourages self-reflection, which does, however, require courage on the part of the viewer. Or as Florian Waldvogel writes in his introductory text: »Do the protagonists of his paintings seek an encounter with something that goes beyond the world of objects and fixed quantities? Is it, as Martin Heidegger writes in What is Metaphysics? , about an encounter with the nothing within dread ? Does the confrontation with nothing in Zekoff´s paintings refer to our fear in the face of the original meaninglessness of the world, to the fact that it is existence that ascribes meanings to things?« The worldliness of the world, according to Heidegger, lies in this emptiness, and Zekoff´s figures, unlike the viewers, do not dread nothingness. But as in Jacobean tragedy, fear needs the awareness of loss in order to survive. According to Marcel Proust, Florian Waldvogel concludes, the true paradises are those that have been lost.
Exhibition:
CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, 1/7 - 5/8/2023
The facelessness of the protagonists in Josef Zekoff´s paintings is one of their most distinctive features. From emblematic labyrinths - he does also paint ornaments and maps - to drawn stick figures, the in-between space occupied by these paintings encourages self-reflection, which does, however, require courage on the part of the viewer. Or as Florian Waldvogel writes in his introductory text: »Do the protagonists of his paintings seek an encounter with something that goes beyond the world of objects and fixed quantities? Is it, as Martin Heidegger writes in What is Metaphysics? , about an encounter with the nothing within dread ? Does the confrontation with nothing in Zekoff´s paintings refer to our fear in the face of the original meaninglessness of the world, to the fact that it is existence that ascribes meanings to things?« The worldliness of the world, according to Heidegger, lies in this emptiness, and Zekoff´s figures, unlike the viewers, do not dread nothingness. But as in Jacobean tragedy, fear needs the awareness of loss in order to survive. According to Marcel Proust, Florian Waldvogel concludes, the true paradises are those that have been lost.
Exhibition:
CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, 1/7 - 5/8/2023
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-86442-428-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGeheftet
Verlag
ErscheinungsortKöln
ErscheinungslandDeutschland
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum14.12.2023
SpracheEnglisch
Illustrationen18 farbige Rastergrafiken
Artikel-Nr.54116230
Rubriken
GenreKunst/Architektur