555 km Loreley
„Wortschatz Lebenszeichen“ (Vocabulary Sign of Life)
Projection of Hartung Trenz (Cologne / Munich)
Fr 20-24h / Saturday 20-24h / so 20-23h
Vantage point (on the left side of the Rhine river) by the panorama restaurant Loreley

Who doesnt´ know the hit-lists of the nicest words, the threatened words, the taboo words of the year etc…. German vocabulary such as Wanderlust, Denkungsart, Papperlapapp, Zeitgeist, etc. appear yearly in the media and in dinner-table discussions testifying change and development of the German language and its exceedingly rich vocabulary. Language is constantly in the flow, adapting itself, inventing itself anew, answering to time, events and social developments.

On the mythical Loreley rock, a flow of words of different sizes and meanings will originate, which will accompany the Rhine a little while downstream. All levels and codes of the German language thus pass the viewer with the speed of the river-flowing, standing fragmentarily for the today’s thinking and speech. A complicated reflection about language, word education and linguistic development inspired by a place, a rock, a scenery, a river. Language flows!

Profile:
Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz have been working for 15 years with word projections and text projections– their big subject is the combination of light, space and language and all three factors playing together to break down other meaning levels. Often the current work receives new facets via the interaction with the viewer – thus, for example, parts of a projection are blended out for a short time by other passing viewers - thus making visible other components of the projection. The range of activities of this artist pair reaches from the creation of a flashlight as multiple up to – as can be seen at the rheinpartie– landscape-large projections.

The cooperation of both artists began in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich as master-class pupils of Prof. Gerhard Berger. Georg Trenz, born in 1962, had completed his studies as a communication designer and Detlef Hartung, born in 1958, had studied mechanical engineering.

www.hartung-trenz.de

View point: www.loreley-panorama.de