Watching with my Ears

With Watching with my Ears, Wuppertal-based artist Jorgo Schäfer presents works he created over a period of 20 years during the Vision Festival in New York. The Vision Festival is an annual world festival of free jazz (free improvised music, avant-garde jazz, etc.), in which other arts such as dance, poetry, spoken word, and visual arts also play an important role.

"When Wuppertal bassist Peter Kowald invited me to the Vision Festival in New York in the summer of 2000, I had no idea what kind of universe I was about to enter. That was to change over the next 20 years.
I was given the opportunity to place my work table directly in front of the stage so that I could immediately translate my impressions into free sketches.
Over the years, the Vision Festival has had a lasting influence on my entire visual art work." (Jorgo Schäfer)

"Jorgo hears and sees with his eyes and ears and takes risks himself when creating the sheets. As soon as the last note has faded away and the lights in the hall are switched back on, the picture is finished; nothing more is added or painted over. The element of spontaneity is at the forefront – painting as improvisation." (Stefan Altevogt)

Jorgo Schäfer's sketches and spontaneous drawings are collected in this volume.

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