Cockaigne

Futuristic scenarios, inhabited by fragments from the worlds of comics, technical drawing, Pop Art and Abstraction. Anthropomorphic elements swirling in a love dance, boring holes into each other, or floating aimlessly in a white space like still-lifes from a different world. Only tufts of hair or single bodily pieces testify to human existence. 

Benedikt Rugar (former HfG-student) presents his first solo exhibition, »Cockaigne« (or Schlaraffenland in German, a utopia of overflowing excess where everyday rules are turned on their head), with artworks created especially for Westwerk, including wall drawings and prints as well as video and animation. Welcome to the oozing paranoid world of excess, in the lake of pitch-black syrup. (Felix Kubin, curator)