Quite days in cliché
Speech on the occasion of the exhibition Quiet days in cliché (excerpt)
Kunstverein Eschweiler, Stefan Skowron, May 2000
The sound of love. It echoes in the songs of the cafés and restaurants, moves in gentle waves through the open door onto the street where it melts with the street noise of the city into a roaring concert of music, people and machine sounds. The sunlight flickers feverishly and makes the shop windows transparent, lets those inside be with those outside. Nowhere there is quite and at the same time everywhere. You only need to stand still and nothing moves any more. Who pays attention might find some like-minded people and together you look at the flashy posters of the billboards, the old, white-haired man, the couple of doves, people, faces, life. The honking of the cars brings us back into life. Looking on the map for the place where we are, searching for a route which takes us safely through the maze of streets and lanes towards the famous, to those who are alive, those who are dead and those made of stone. And then soon after a couple of metres a stop in the next café, in front of which there are chairs and tables on the pavement.
Love is no cliché, it is a myth in which appearance and reality are allies as sometimes. Quiet days in the cliché is a project also about love, with paintings of Ralf Walraff, a film from Gerd Plitzner, and music from “Jardin des Olivettes”.
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