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you want my vision is to stage the next exhibition here in the spring of 2022 and as you see that's not possible in the buildings present condition get us in this or and so i intend to clear the grounds of base and secure the structure so we can hold a temporary exhibition here in the south of the temple we are. for a longer times the crazy idea i'm just a collaborator but i'm happy to be involved so far it has always been worth it was ordered there looking for the mysterious little town of his ashen which the writer thomas mann names is the birthplace of faith in his novel dr faustus.

so far they've actually found the gravestone of the philosopher his grandfather. is from your nature was born in brooklyn about 6 or 7 kilometers away his garbage died young and the received a lot of support from his grandfather who influenced him greatly and was the pastor of this church. in the. box in the crypt of st dangles chair they don't find the remains of his grandfather or any reference to the german philosopher. however there are many signs that the village of populous was idyllic in the past. the hour or 2 in this hobby or coffee for in the whole of nature's life this is probably the only place where he felt at home where he had people he was fond of all his life so it might sounds as a 5 year old with a loving grandad there's nothing better it's his. nature has reclaimed the church.

it's small it's good it's determined to make it once again a place where people can meet share memories and drift lacked. for the strike. it's not the 1st time he has restored a church in 1989 shortly after the collapse of communism he discovered that a lot today to bend for catholic church in saxony and how that. he was determined to rescue it from 30 decay. windows and all. and we arrived in ban books at the time i was very interested in romanesque architecture so i took a look inside the church and was so moved that i almost fell over. but. i looked through the broken windows and what i saw was incredible surreal. the

space was filled with elaborate sankofa guy huge coffins with eagles on them as a missile corps and. the suck off a guy rested on metal beers with metal angels hovering over them and holding crowns . in the 17th century the council church was famous throughout the german lands this was where the princes of and how to worship and were buried the curing the communist era the royal church and its crypt one left to decay. one has but one doesn't and then the superintendent or regional senior pastor as he's called showed me the church. we entered through a back door the door to the tower. because he guessed what kind of impression it would make on me and not only on me if we entered through the main doors. it looked

really shabby. or now i would say it looked like a shack. and. the artist and the pastor got to know each other and became friends. i now. had already held an exhibition at the castle in bamberg museum. when i travelled to hala and that's when we really got to know each other and. we sat in his kitchen and talked about everything under the sun including of course art. and it's very possible that i asked him then if he could imagine making art for the church and. couldn't do something for the church. we were confronted with this

important church whose interior was in such ruins the amp's walled off and the turn of the century paintings chipped off the walls and confronted up. and i don't remember exactly how but we started saying we should do something about the month because. no sooner said than done the artists started making full scale designs on paper. and. lots of artists could paint a picture or an altar piece for a church but to design a whole church from ceiling to altar demands a certain megalomania oh. this is. they've legal fee mr history inspired. the most money from the

artist doesn't have to be a church goer who is. about his openness to the wonders of creation and if you like to god though he wouldn't use that name himself. is what makes moderates good or wonderful and maybe one of the few or the only religious communicator in this region where the church has completely disappeared from. the math of this is. the artist consulted a wide variety of traditional image and that's what. then we selected particular themes to focus on. we had to choose at some point. and then i simply told stories biblical stories that he may have heard before but no longer remembered we looked at pictures together we asked ourselves what might

be important today what stimulated him but mostly i told a lot of stories those were our meetings telling biblical stories and looking at pictures he. also has very different influences his style grew out of the comics that circulated in communist east germany funky adventure stories with a program about distant places. is. it was a truly unique visual experience and an educated cannon. that's why more men than average in east germany even in unskilled jobs could tell you about venice or by xantia. deal with us here in. this to fall because. the

congregation was startled at 1st but the starry heavens soon one their approval. and its noise the painting the ceiling to look like the heavens is nothing new in a church. you see it in many periods of art history. but how it's a good sky would differ from say one by cause prediction was not immediately clear and good said you had to see it. as the morse. because i was not. involved. pungo one woman and i've hung the design against it so you can see where the division is i don't know if it's too much or whether we should let it fade into the out of that and on the door assigned to the measurements work. yes they work. short

demonstration and i out of them through i didn't think they would. just be our. money our money year because the vast money will help the 1st you must have an idea of what you want to do then you miss pin it down in a design so that you can convince other people who put up some money that so given the stuff in and. none of us had any experience we were in it for the 1st time or and but we got there will slowly but surely pop and. it was clear from the start that the pictures would be created in enamel. for years to get so has worked with the traditional enamelware and saxony. it

has old furnace is modern lasers for cutting the metal sheets. as this will to the bone can this is the crown of thorns and this as you see is the fish. the image is drawn on metal sheet. this unusual commission makes a pleasant change for the workers. as a trusted client is also given access to the works when no one else is. dead woman caught the crown of thorns. when they've been cut out the metal sheets must be transported 160 kilometers to ben bullock to fit them on the on even holes. then all the way back to be

painted in fiat. the enamel work has put a small studio at the artist's disposal where i can give free rein to his imagination to. do that with if i want it doesn't if i don't work in rectangles i cast out the shapes that way i create something like a silhouette with a lot of open spaces my decorative elements my foliage is all cut out and. that gives the hard a normal in steel a very soft fragile quality the. top of quite.

apart from the laser cutter the heart of the enamel works is the 130 year old furnace. that's very high temperature has the animal powder forms a solid glass layer that bonds with the steel. as a child and often i always know i'm turning off the furnace today i'll leave a few of the baskets empty then i'll add my startling my insides. with. the. small corrections are made immediately before firing. feels at home here in there was the furnace well.

when visitors a showed around the workshop when customers a show in the stovepipe factory they always. ok and this is our artist and that's cool being integrated into such a different world of a factory like this. from the off topic. the bright enough pick plants are applied in lands with each layer being fired separately it makes it look simple but the technique requires years of practice. it could. have developed a routine over the past 20 years and gain skill with respect to the material. but i wouldn't be aware of it myself because that's just the way it is but when people come without that experience i see what i've learned and i'm grateful for the skill i've acquired. so what we need it because it's there is a likeness about more it's got says and i'm aware and his technique is special.

when it comes out of the furnace of work can't be corrected but it survives for centuries. nearly fired elements are brought to the church and the pastor is surprised again and again at how beautiful they are and how the whole design is taking shape. then the hard work of attaching the pieces begins. nearly 2000 and cousin spaces are required before the crooked walls disappear behind the colorful steel sheets.

had a knee and for a school for us. would have been impossible because it wouldn't have stuck to the walls so it was providential that moffatt said from the start that if he did something it would be an enamel and the enamored sheets would be separate from the wall or mounted on the wall or mounted in front of the wall that was very reassuring for the engineers and conservationists. the gap between the pictures on the wall facilitates ventilation and inhibits down yes. it also has another advantage that might not seem so obvious. for the future the parish can always say oh good says stupid all that's dismantled the metal sheets unpacked the whole caboodle in the loft and then people can decide in the future if it

hasn't all been stolen in the meantime they can reassemble it in 100 years or. more it gets a grew up 140 kilometers southwest of berlin even after working a 60 hour week he's usually good humored and he likes to relax with family and friends at home or in the garden and. my parents attended. school just across the river and i was born and grew up here the 900 meters from here is the farthest i moved in my life. his wife a successful ceramic artist enjoys cooking and entertaining together with her husband. the family motto might being a weekend without unannounced visit us is a wasted weekend. my parents still live in the same street where i grew up.

and we collaborate on some projects in the middle of eyelets there are situations where our artistic activities over. the artist and the past continue to work together on the interior design of the church ready. usually the artist carries out the pastor's wishes that gets is also good for a surprise. these are the clouds you promised you know about. this in 400. 16 years to match the height over there i thought i'd add a few clouds here. so i will. now have a show and i haven't seen this either on the hymn board artificial word you know as it appears in enamel. 6 as they discuss the next step they feel the artist's latest work and the pastor

gets another surprise. does it start or get the on the one hand with all and the writing of a donkey in the city is reminiscent of biblical times. but of course there weren't any skyscrapers back then the kind of work. so these tall buildings relate the picture to the present day. but the way it's painted is very unusual. i've never seen a composition like that here i recognize the theme but one can see immediately that you have any of the 20 years. to figure that one now i'm confused myself. finally see a canvas ornament much is the arch over the apps. it fits perfectly. they have hardly solve this difficulty when mom is playing the next joke on the pastor.

it involves a bit of wordplay that's got. me i know not a dove a bunch of grapes. yeah. coffee never christian iconography comprises many details what these flower means what that animal means. and there are often several meanings. and then brian said to me it would be nice to have a bunch of grapes there. but i painted a dove. with the water and when i showed him the design i said proudly i put a dove here and he said a dove i said grapes but i also painted grapes. the 1st visit has arrived. there from birth area and have never seen

a protestant church like this. that even encouraged to touch the paintings. with my luck i should probably lock myself in the church for 2 or 3 days to discover my own work. and it's a very strange feeling which i've never had with any other work. so. in september 26th seen after more than 5 years the 1st section of the ban for pictorial bible was completed the occasion was celebrated with a special prayer service.

if it really. god forbade israel to make an image of him unlike israel's neighbors who warship the idols believed it but the people were weak and while moses was away on mount horrible they formed an image. get rid of the images said moses and he gave them the 10 commandments instead. i'll never do another project like this for me it will also remain unique so i'm very pleased that we've come this far. to it 10 years ago one couldn't have

imagined it happening. as us as a way a quick solution on my own and so he says himself i feel never create something like this again it's made him a part of history that's amazing that didn't fit what other people i pay to long are immortalized he's just an ordinary person in fact change of the picture and hangs in a sacred space it's one that isn't so sacred anymore especially today because god ordination maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea is to continue the project to be this why the old so it's about it's come to move it's got to do it's and that i knew. moritz gets up from his work in life stationed elsewhere and brings it on foot and i'm very grateful that pastor by i had the courage to support this project just for there was a lot of criticism dug up on the farm the so called some people objected that it was in the style of comics it's contemporary art by somebody who has an ambivalent relationship to the face as he himself admits the some years it was up he has a very positive approach but not that of

a typical christian minded view of guffey him does the capture of the big concern for every arc with all its questioning confronts the church and this whole historical buildings she still. doesn't get tensions and contrasts are fascinating and we live with them in the former communist east germany i mean leaving videos it daughtry music you're just going to kill to these jaci is unique worldwide for me it's a completely original artistic concept which are no more than a uniquely new approach to the old message for people in the 21st century by an artist who isn't a member of the church precisely for that reason asks the right questions and tries to help find answers like can only be good for the parish doing. the cranes is still ringing in his day is when markets get so known she's a new project to save it in half a day to church once again with

a young pastor and friends again it consumes a lot of time and finally in order to 2020 he found sinister you see asian women sign that didn't meet him they always start with the legal questions need. in the dim past us fast your hearts are so quick you. with. the association set up to restore the church in public it's called kaiser's action that's the imaginary town where friedrich nietzsche was born and thomas monks great novel to file systems. the association wants to give the finish a profile the association is a legal entity and its members are professionals businesspeople architects lawyers and of course artists but the guiding spirit. that vermont on here

from the f.a.a. has cut off from the heart is. my vision is huge. to create a space here that want to get our foot in the public door top flight maybe really succeed in saving the church and turning it into the kaiser's national museums.

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