Exhibition until 3.7., vernissage 4.6. 7 pm, open Mon-Fri 12-5 pm, admission free
CHA CHA CHA (Chagall Cover Band)
The title of the project is Taumel. It refers to current social and political developments and illustrates these influences on the (self-)perception of people in the region in a fresco-like, expansive installation. The central motif is the figure. For his work, the artist uses waste paper, charcoal he has made himself, Rügen chalk and gouache. Photographic fragments are carefully incorporated. Some of the thoughts Bumke expresses on the subject of "Taumel":
Welcome to expendability.
In the laughed-at jungle of values of worn-out morality.
My soiled conscience.
Traffic jam of conditions.
Arbitrarily drifting,
through the various levels of human expression,
with the feigned freedoms.
Images of the disappearing individual,
in front of the same old, mendacious promises of dissocial prosperity.
More betrayal than promise of happiness and contentment.
Images of the meandering progression of repetitive events,
in a post-climatic heat-free zone.
Confrontation with the
rage and longing for aggression that supplants free will.
Makes room for sentimental memories
and the same old excuses
for the omnipresent drama of political interaction.
In the rushing whirl of those
who demand attention and care loudly and quietly,
the time constraints of childcare, school and work.
Never free,
from tear-inducing excessive demands,
the incomprehensible, conflict-laden density
of life, love and consumption,
I am tired.
Small pleasures and big ones,
the life-sustaining reasons for good moods,
for the freedom to make considerate decisions,
against the simplicity of destructive impulses,
which so temptingly and so comprehensively brush the world smooth.
Look curiously between my feet,
and notice the inconspicuous.
