• 24 pages
• Series »16pages«

978-3-929232-59-2

9.00 €           

Together with Paulus Böhmer and Klaus Reichert

»In the Gothic Christian myths the human becomes brutalized. The animal, which he approaches, in turn takes a step: it adopts something human, which disturbs. This wolf is Mr. Isegrim, this owl is Dr. Weisheit« – whereby Victor Hugo, who writes this, could not have meant either Paulus Böhmer and Klaus Reichert, nor Klaus Reichert and Paulus Böhmer. Nevertheless, he means what bothers both of them in the present booklet, monsters in all shapes and the substance of the monstrous, and understands like both of them much about the monstrosity's timelessness: »The disappearance of reality is not lesser in the Middle Ages than in antiquity. In the logarithms of imagination one link is enough to change everything. It is a new incredible world. There are as many of this incredible worlds as types of credulity« – which is again hardly a direct allusion to Shakespeare's »Othello«, which Klaus Reichert targets to reflect on the monstrous. It is rather about the knowledge of the universality of the monstrous, which fills the smallest showcase as well as the cosmic world window of Paulus Böhmer, the concurrency of the most separated, the equilibrium of everything being far apart. »No one has had the final say about the unique cabinet of Japanese monsters in Den Haag-gallery. The fleeting science smiles about it, passes over and sets up the oracle: There are botchy hybrid links; but it is certain that this is cliff and impact for reflection for the serious observers.« – One may consider the present booklet as such a kind of cabinet, of which Saint-Hilaire wisely muttered: »Enigmatic!«