November 11, 2022 - January 14, 2023
DESTINATION PARADISE
Tim Hergersberg
Izabela Myszka
Olga Titus
With texts by Izabela Myszka and Luca Rey
Tim Hergersberg
Izabela Myszka
Olga Titus
We struggle with our destiny for Paradise in the profane of everyday life, asking ourselves questions about beauty. The delight of the senses, located in an imagined Paradise, always evokes - more or less - a cosmic, heavenly garden.
The exhibition in Dienstgebäude presents an image of beauty, a bodily and spiritual heavenly delight, promised - to the man of our culture - as a reward after the hardships of earthly existence. Here you will see forms, clothed in colours and radiance to guide the gaze, textures of diverse substances craving touch, metaphors of meaning, entangled in a language of corporeal symbols not difficult to decipher.
On this road to Paradise, delight forms anew the organic images of the senses, full with sensations awakened by imaginary sensuality. In the rituals performed at the altars the spirit ascends, like the scents of incense, fragrantly sanctifying the moments. The body longs to immerse itself in a sparkling envelopment of psychedelic colours and to touch even one of the flowers waiting lustfully on the blue bed.
Tim's works are like images of the awakening senses. He creates them by composing unreal, organically soft forms, full of contrasts, out of different matter. The receptors of physicality seem to intensify the sensations flowing into pleasure.
Swirling thoughts wander in imagination, following an idea encapsulated in unearthly forms, recalling the Boschian Garden of earthly delight, and the carnal sins.
Multiplying eyes, fingers, lips and mouths tell us a story unfolding in the Garten der Luste. The jumbled textures of the matter - a touch variously wanting - and the contrasts of colour arouse ever-increasing tension, while the opening forms invite the imagination into a game of desire.
On the other hand, Tim sets up altars - symbols of connection with the Universe, sacrifice, prayer, celebration, accompanied - as always - by sanctifying fragrances and sounds. Tim's road to paradise combines corporeality and spirituality.
Olga Titus embroiders and her canvases are like sheets of visual delight sewn with colours. The shimmer of the sequins evokes an impression of rapture into a land of delight, woven from singularly dazzling emotions. The mixing of sparkles
and psychedelically colourful juxtapositions is like a dream of infinite beauty awaiting us in paradise. If colours were the only signpost to Paradise then Olga amplifies their meaning. She illuminates the way to Paradise by scattering glittering sparks. She allows or even desires interaction. She gives her work over to co-creation. Each viewer can evoke their own image of Paradise by touching Olga's creations. Everything flows softly, like a delightfully sensual ballet, choreographed in a slow harmonious rhythm of colours and sparkles, pulsating from the slightest movement, from every breath. Unformed shapes, dissolving, blur every doubt and guide the viewer through the sublime beauty of the mysterious garden.
Izabela Myszka creates metaphors for garden elements destined for paradise. She amplifies certain features of the morphology of the flowers, those that whisper, embarrassed, brazenly beautifully tell the story of their destiny.
Flowers are by nature created to allure. They crave attention. Spread out politely on the blueflowerbed they await touch. The astonishing similarity of forms has always united flowers of all entities and reduced them to unambiguous connotations. Their images leave no doubt that they only belong to the world of pleasure.
In paradise, man was permitted by God to touch the flowers. It was only the fruit, after all, that was forbidden. The purity of their whiteness makes one focus only on form. The substance, on the other hand, combines subtle fragility with the hardness caused by the heat of the fire.
This image of Paradise, in the physicality and spirituality of sensations, ascends to heaven. Let us ascend a few centimeters above the superficiality of normality - morality, to a garden woven of colours, forms and textures, taking the direction of paradise. Let us allow ourselves to immerse ourselves in beauty, to escape, to fly away, to feed ourselves with unrealised delight. Do we still have the right to enjoy beauty? To even dream of paradise ... in all the disorder we cause in the profane? Perhaps ... if we continue to evoke them through art. Let us, therefore, enjoy the paradise on earth, built from its artistic imagery.
All our lives we have been moving towards the promised Paradise.
To the imaginary land of the finite happiness of body and soul, full of mystical peace. The senses are opened in spiritual rituals, initiated by aromas swirling upwards from the portals of the altars. The gates to paradise open. The path to it is woven from shimmering colours, like a matrix that everyone can remodel and create anew, for themselves. The flowers become a metaphor for the ecstatic beauty of this place to which we all aspire.
Text by Izabela Myszka |
