Review October 15, 2022
An installation with drawings, visuals and sounds, exhibition and lounge. In the underground rooms, I showed an audiovisual journey through my art, through moods and scene worlds since the beginning of the 80s. A composition of sketches, fragments, light and sounds, associative and without any claim to chronological order.
Photos, Simono, Verena Franke, S-8 films by Simono excerpt from ‘endless dance sequences’,, performers; Ilona Mende, Marina Steiner and Mikado,, from Enigma, 1991, mit .R. Baumeister.
At the center of my 40 Waves video installation was the drawing, between figuration, construction and condensation. With an anatomical gaze, I began a dialog between my current sketches and those from the 90s, on the left an excerpt from a Legetrick film. At the beginning I showed an NI video, Natural Intelligence, self-generating calligraphy. Anyone who was there knows what is meant…
At the end, excerpts from my 90s project “Infinite Dance Sequences” were shown, Super 8 films with a 1920s feel, with the performers Ilona Mende, Marina Steiner and Mikado. Between the presentation and the taiko playing of the group Iki Iki Taiko, a dialog was created, something new, in the first performance more than in the second. Taiko can have many nuances. In the 2nd set, the timpani was actually much louder than the violin (the visuals), it was at the finale of the event, as a catharsis. I first experienced playing taiko in this room years ago.
Location:
Basement of the Königstadt Gewerbehof
Saarbrücker Straße 23
10405 Berlin
U Senefelder Platz
near Schönhauser Allee