Olaf Nicolai:
"Every day at dusk..."

11 April to 26 April 2007

Opening hours:
Tuesday through Friday 3 p.m. to 6.30 pm, Sunday 4 p.m. to 6.30 pm

You and your friends are cordially invited to attend the opening on Wednesday, 11 April 2007, at 8 p.m.

Greetings:
Holger Graab, chairman

Introductory remarks:
Veronika Olbrich, curator
Hans-Jürgen Jagau, Neurodidact and hunter

Shooter: Petra Tutschke, World Champion IPSC s Ladies Standard Division 2005

Please bring glasses. We will provide ear protectors.

Introduction

With his project "Every day at dusk ..." (1999/2007), Olaf Nicolai (born 1962) will start the annual programme of the Kunstverein Langenhagen. Under the title "Große Gefühle ..." (Great Emotions..."), it will discuss artistic positions in which emotional states themselves, their various manners of expression and perception will be contextualised. The title implies well-known media clichés from heartbreak, great love, and the seemingly unavoidable loss of reason. Feelings and experiences on an emotional level, however, often form the prerequisites of rational knowledge. "Great Emotions" as a synonym for "great love" is a central theme within the entirety of art history. This is true for the representation of feelings as a pictorial motive as well as motives that trigger emotions when being viewed.

Olaf Nicolai's project adapts the idea of a shooting gallery at a fairground: According to the standard cliché, the idea of the hero shooting a rose is a central element his visit to a shooting match. His beloved anxiously receives the rose as proof of his love and affection. The situation could not be any more ambivalent: Only by shooting the sweet trophy does it seem possible to offer living proof of one's great feelings. The ambivalence contextualised in Nicolai's works also points out the complex correlation between violence and creative processes.

Every day at 6 p.m., a markswoman will fire five shots at a rose.

Program

Friday, 13 April 2007, 6 p.m.
"Unarmed in the hunting grounds -- Empathising with wild game during the raised hide at dusk" -- The excursion will begin after the shots are fired at the rose at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 6 p.m.
The marksmanship association "Brink von 1919 e.V." invites you to visit its air-rifle shooting gallery. Introduction: Heiner Rust, "Oberschützenmeister". -- The excursion will begin after the shots are fired at the rose at 6 p.m.

Thursday, 19 April 2007, 8 p.m.
"Art at the Firing Line", illustrated lecture by Raimar Stange, critic and curator, bass player in the Art Critics Orchestra, lives in Berlin

Monday, 23 April 2007, 7.30 p.m.
"Shooter", Action thriller, USA 2007 (opens in cinemas: 19 April 2007)
With Mark Wahlberg, directed by Antoine Fuqua
Who is a friend? Who is a foe? A political thriller full of abysses and an exiting run against the clock - Meeting point: Utopia Kino Langenhagen, Walsroder Straße 105, 30853 Langenhagen

Thursday, 26 April 2007, 7.30 p.m.
Finissage
The markswoman Petra Tutschke will shoot last five times at the paperflowers at 8 p.m.

The shot paper flowers are presented to the visitors.
Flower: 10,- EUR

You are cordially invited!

Olaf Nicolai: "Every day at dusk..."

Introduction

Program

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Olaf Nicolai:
"Every day at dusk..."