Henning Wagenbreth
Mazooka on Sunday
Sundays are quiet. The city is empty, few people are on the streets. Factories are shut down, no one works, schools are closed. There is no wind, and flags hang down on flagpoles. Quiet sounds come from the houses. A music is played here and there, the sound of plates clattering in the kitchen, and the sound of someone chopping onions. Somebody might be playing cards somewhere. Someone might be reading a book. Sometimes a car passes by, and a ship crosses the horizon.
The city is a mirror of society.
How do we create the space we need for our lives? How do we produce, eat, and sleep? How do we love, learn, work, and relax? Where and how do we meet others? Who decides what the city needs and where to build it? Do those with economic and political power decide? Are other people's voices heard and involved? What ideas and spirit are reflected in the city? The city is a sculpture we create every day, and it is constantly changing.
The installation work “Mazooka on Sunday” offers the experience of visiting a city that stays still for Sundays. This stillness enables the audience to quietly observe details that would otherwise be blurred by the busyness of everyday life.
Exhibition hall
Ogimi Village Former Shioya Elementary School 538 Shioya, Ogimi Village, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa
ARTIST
Henning Wagenbreth
born 1962 in former East Germany.
Versatile artist, based in Berlin, studied graphic design. He has created a unique and extensive mixed-media world through his work as illustrator and graphic designer with a special interest in the craftsmanship and technical understanding of the whole printing process. He loves to design his own typefaces.
He works on commissioned jobs and his own art projects, between original work and mass-produced objects.
Mainly for books, newspapers, posters and postal stamps. With other projects he undertakes adventure tours into the art world, music, animation film and theatre.
Since 1994 he is also active as professor of the illustration class at the University of Arts in Berlin.
【Curator for Europe】Gerben Schermer
Curator of contemporary art and animation.
He founded, directed and developed the international Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) from 1985 to 2018. He serves on the board of directors and in consultancy positions for national and international organizations. He has been a guest program organizer and jury member at many film festivals around the world, as well as a film producer and publisher.