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In the exhibition "With dove bar soap and forks" in the art room Kreuzlingen be seen thirty positions. All revolve around the uncontrollable or even tragic side of happiness. If you find a really Schlarg once, bring's home anyway! / Give him oat grain slime! / Because it serves you to enlighten entzünden. / blow up the Schlarg so with minor thirds, / with forks and hope, with plenty of jokes! / Hunt the Schlarg! / Jag 'it with kindness and with thimbles ![. . ]/ And lock it in bags with a smile! - Michael Ende, according to Lewis Carroll's "Hunting of the Snark. " For some it is the Schlarg, for others the snitch for Lewis Carroll is the Snark, which they run after, the good people, they are not. They try to bewitch or to bribe, to force or buy. Most will mention this incredible and yet so longed something: happiness. Tanja Trampe and Daniel Petrini search for happiness in more than three years of happiness as a phenomenon, its very different characteristics and hazards. A major project that is a much larger issue. Since it is a good structure, a starting point that makes the whole thing does not come along at will, too intellectual. The two women from Zurich and Lörrach successfully resisted the temptation to depict scientific facts or even to capture many facets of an already barely tangible state to do. Instead, find the two artists and curators in a literary source and central point for their search for happiness: In 2003 they met Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" by 1876, the subtitle "An agony in eight seizures. " Led by a crier sail around eight unhappy fortune-seekers and a beaver, move from social constraints, constantly oscillating between hope and despair are all captured for himself in his very own fears. Finally they found an alter ego of happiness, the Boojum, that his discovery can evaporate promptly. Trampe and Petrini fascinated by the coordinate-free map of the ocean make the protagonists of Nonsenseballade on the road. The card can also be read as the ubiquity of an inexplicable thing as a symbol of the transcendence of happiness. Maybe it's just about as exciting for artistic exploration. Again and again, circling the exhibited works, some of which were specially developed for this project to the uncontrollable, absurd or tragic side of happiness or its counterpart. For example, Edward Wright offers starting from the constraints of daily work standards aggression platform in the well-to-frame painting and tame in his pictures like a lion tamer, the outbursts of the protagonists. Many a glorified the past as only saving time. Here, for example, helps further Bettina Carl. In her works on paper seem to subjective and collective memories of youth, they offer a level of reflection for the desires that are fed back from view. What many consider the epitome of happiness, is dedicated to, among other Sebastian Schaub: What to do if I win the lottery tomorrow? The Zurich artist visualizes in his watercolor reactions of lottery tickets in the conflict between the infinite hope and the little piece of paper, which is here enlarged to gigantic proportions. A less tangible, but nevertheless reflected approach selects Ursula Palla with her video work "The dove bar soap was mistaken. " Subtle it leads to fear and freedom from loss-based power relations. Creates a dove bar soap on its own to restart? see also Animal Andy Storchenegger whose "overwhelmed by luck" cat in the opening exhibition of the new NextEx was. Depends on her tail even the Boojum? Does it therefore strange freezes?. "With dove bar soap and forks" raises questions and is marked by joyous game of definitions and emotions. So hands washed and packed Esswerkzeug, fixed, and picked up - maybe can get lucky in Kreuzlingen, but beware, it is perhaps even be counter part, one can suddenly disappear and then gently. . .
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