Nine artists examine the concept of Romanticism and look at what remains of this epoch in us
Feelings are also facts
We live in the modern age and we benefit from many of its achievements. And yet we are at the limits of what is possible. On the one hand, we share the high values that everyone has the right to live their freedom and luxurious individuality and, on the other hand, the resources currently available to us are clearly not sufficient to fulfill this right for everyone. This salvation for everyone remains a promise and only becomes a reality for the privileged.
Romanticism celebrates the feeling, the longing of people and a greater power to which we must also subordinate ourselves as human beings. While modernity declares facts to be reality, romanticism offers a refuge from it. In this duality, our evaluations are permanently subject to the decision to carry them out as romantics or as analysts. As a result, a part of us is always left out. Uniting these schools of thought from both eras offers us a complement to these dichotomous evaluations.
The exhibition "Feelings are also facts" at the Köppenhaus Greifswald presents works of art in this field of tension. Romanticism and Modernism are two epochs that mankind had to create, as it unites both within itself. The addition of the two schools of thought to each other unites these cultural currents.
In the humility to accept powers or circumstances that are greater than man, we unite ourselves with the nature from which we originate. In this devotion, the separation from our nature and environment dissolves. This kind of devotion is, as it were, an orientation towards communality. Which could not function without the recognition of equality or science.
