Marcus Herse

Sniff the Space Flat on your Face brings together historical and contemporary positions working with allegiance to this tradition. The artists in the exhibit summon the irrational, the otherworldly, the dramatic and grotesque. They celebrate the poetry of morphing images, uncovering the beautiful spasms, and marvelous states of excitement, which penetrate into our world from underneath the skin of reality.

*Stanley Krippner, ‘Die hypnotische Trance, die psychedelische Erfahrung und der kreative Akt’

The fundamental phenomena in art are cyclical, and there is a recurring tendency that often marks a period of transition. It appears between the exhaustion of one era and the vitality of another. It is an aggressive, yet greatly refined spirit, that surfaces in periods such as Surrealism, or Psychedelic Art, and owes its heritage to such disparate movements as Hellenism, Mannerism, Rococo and Romanticism, In it lies a suspicion towards the real as the current knowledge of an epoch defines it and its Zeitgeist perceives it, and the general notion that the rational models of art and thought are fragments ‘imposed by the limitations of man's consciousness upon the unlimited variations of his internal and external world.’*