Guten Flug mit “AirYobobo”!
…when the plane takes off from the ground, we habitually try not to think about why we can fly in the air at all.
Director/artist Peter Dzogaba flies so often that he already has a certain ritual associated with this repetitive action: on each flight he asks a surprised flight attendant for several hygiene bags at once. This strange request sometimes also causes confusion among passengers sitting in neighboring seats. They start fidgeting and worrying.
And then, when having received a stack of packages, Dzogaba begins to methodically tear them into separate sheets - his neighbors ask them to be transplanted further away. But the artist just takes out a marker and draws strange comics for the rest of the flight.
Short graphic stories on uneven sheets with logos of both well-known and completely exotic airlines (T'way Air? Akasa???) - later also become part of the "big comics".
Those that will be presented in the Gallery are largely inspired by another invariable component of air travel - graphical accident evacuation schemes, with accompanying illustrations.
A series of works made in mixed media (silk-screen printing/collage/painting/appliqué) is easiest to imagine as just such peculiar evacuation schemes. From the brightly colored planes of some regular dwarf airline - well, let's say, for example, "AirYobobo". Why are we flying? Where is this flight? (perhaps we will learn more from the online version of this exhibition, which will be available on the website dzogaba.com on the day of the Vernissage)
Let's imagine for a second - where did we end up after we successfully used these evacuation schemes - apparently, "AirYobobo" has already taken us to another reality.
The artist's alter ego, the giant Yobobo, appears in these paintings/diagrams either as a savior of passengers, and sometimes as an unpredictable danger to air travel.
This dualism makes the giant an ambivalent hero (or anti-hero, it depends) - which perfectly conveys the feeling of many of us from what is happening around.
The quantum principle of duality - day by day reveals itself to us with ever greater perseverance. And if earlier we could afford not to notice it, now it’s no longer possible to just dismiss it.
So the artist convincingly translates this state of total uncertainty in the last series of works. After all, while the author is flying in an airplane (but has not yet landed) - he, in fact, is a typical paradox of the "Schrödinger's cat", stuck between realities.
Until Dzogaba, holding a pile of crumpled picture sheets, descends the plane at the airport of arrival ...
Tempelhof Airport these days is one of the traditional venues for Berlin Art Week.
So Gallery invites you to take an exciting "flight with AirYobobo" - into a bizarre and funny world that you will not find on any map.
World of Yobobo
Director/artist Peter Dzogaba flies so often that he already has a certain ritual associated with this repetitive action: on each flight he asks a surprised flight attendant for several hygiene bags at once. This strange request sometimes also causes confusion among passengers sitting in neighboring seats. They start fidgeting and worrying.
And then, when having received a stack of packages, Dzogaba begins to methodically tear them into separate sheets - his neighbors ask them to be transplanted further away. But the artist just takes out a marker and draws strange comics for the rest of the flight.
Short graphic stories on uneven sheets with logos of both well-known and completely exotic airlines (T'way Air? Akasa???) - later also become part of the "big comics".
Those that will be presented in the Gallery are largely inspired by another invariable component of air travel - graphical accident evacuation schemes, with accompanying illustrations.
A series of works made in mixed media (silk-screen printing/collage/painting/appliqué) is easiest to imagine as just such peculiar evacuation schemes. From the brightly colored planes of some regular dwarf airline - well, let's say, for example, "AirYobobo". Why are we flying? Where is this flight? (perhaps we will learn more from the online version of this exhibition, which will be available on the website dzogaba.com on the day of the Vernissage)
Let's imagine for a second - where did we end up after we successfully used these evacuation schemes - apparently, "AirYobobo" has already taken us to another reality.
The artist's alter ego, the giant Yobobo, appears in these paintings/diagrams either as a savior of passengers, and sometimes as an unpredictable danger to air travel.
This dualism makes the giant an ambivalent hero (or anti-hero, it depends) - which perfectly conveys the feeling of many of us from what is happening around.
The quantum principle of duality - day by day reveals itself to us with ever greater perseverance. And if earlier we could afford not to notice it, now it’s no longer possible to just dismiss it.
So the artist convincingly translates this state of total uncertainty in the last series of works. After all, while the author is flying in an airplane (but has not yet landed) - he, in fact, is a typical paradox of the "Schrödinger's cat", stuck between realities.
Until Dzogaba, holding a pile of crumpled picture sheets, descends the plane at the airport of arrival ...
Tempelhof Airport these days is one of the traditional venues for Berlin Art Week.
So Gallery invites you to take an exciting "flight with AirYobobo" - into a bizarre and funny world that you will not find on any map.
World of Yobobo