Night Tales

(English below)

Night Tales

Þýski myndlistarmaðurinn Johannes Tassilo Walter og belgíski tónlistarmaðurinn Nicolas Kunysz leiða saman hesta sína í bókverka-hljóðinnsetningu í Mengi. Kynnt verður til sögunnar nýtt bókverk Johannesar Tassilo Walter, og flutt hljóðinnsetning sem Nicolas hefur gert af þessu tilefni. Bókverk Johannesar er gefið út af útgáfufyrirtækinu HAMMANN VON MIER (hammann-von-mier.com) sem sérhæfir sig í útgáfu myndlistarbóka.

Opnar klukkan 18 í Mengi.

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Book presentation and sound installation by Johannes Tassilo Walter & Nicolas Kunysz. Opens at 6pm. Free entry.

NIGHT TALES

»Die Sonne war Nacht, the sun was night.«

Night does not bring darkness – light just disappears.

JOHANNES TASSILO WALTER reduces oil prints to two-color schemes depicting sceneries and objects, in which the compressed story of a culture is revealed: their shiny ascent and demise unto endless blackness –a real good-night story. Walter's paintings are illustrated by a text by P.S.THOR, who removes an imaginable part from the abstraction of endlessness, stuffs it with words and puts it on show. Abstract and concrete history are brought together in a combinative world concept on sheets of cardboard and bound together as a book.

Within the space of Mengi, the endless night continues.

In a sound installation with loops from NICOLAS KUNYSZ another dimension is synthesized as a third element of sound emerges from the concrete book form.

The book is published by HAMMANN VON MIER (hammann-von-mier.com)

Sound by Nicolas Kunysz

Text by P.S. Thor

Visual art by Johannes Tassilo Walter