ONCE YOU HAVE SEEN THE MORNING LIGHT AS MAGIC ONCE YOU WILL ALWAYS SEE THE MORNING LIGHT AS MAGIC
Worried about the daylight racing you home? Scared of routines playing their games, while your tired feet can barely drag you home from an empty night, filled with hedonism and self-expression which seems meaningless now that the your ears are throbbing with silence and the traffic begins to rumble? Depressed by the sights of advertisements, consumerism and the general tautology of life grazing up between the mists of day?
CONVERSATION ABOUT JOURNEY TIMES AND OTHER FALSIFICATIONS OF REALITY
Dear Berliners, don’t worry too much. Your summer in the city might just have been saved. Head to the old Tempelhof Airport, for the rising sun or it’s setting, and get lost in the park while gazing at adorned phrased billboards by artist and poet Robert Montgomery. Last Saturday, 7th of July, Neue Berliner Räume firstly presented the works of this British artist, who has blessed us with a number of his wondrous melancholically charged poem-sculptures.
WHENEVER YOU SEE THE SUN REFELECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A BUILDING IT IS AN ANGEL
Working in a post- situationist tradition, Montgomery attempts to hijack advertising spaces and turn them into magical areas of reflection. Various European cities have already been moved by some of his abstract thoughts, engaging passers in his psychologically bludgeoning art. For a moment, ones mind may travel away from a consumerist daze to find some respite.
DAYS WHERE YOU CANT EVEN BARE THE WEATHER OR THE SKY
Montgomery’s exhibition project Echoes of Voices in the High Towers, will take place over the course of this entire summer. Next to three billboard-pieces situated in front of the old Tempelhof Airport building and two illuminated poem-sculptures in the park of the disused airport, you can find Montgomery’s poems on ten large-sized billboard advertising spaces across Berlin. Ten more works will follow throughout the summer.
COOL KIDS NEVER HAD THE TIME
Montgomery is currently shown at Galerie Nuke in Paris and Galerie Analix in Geneva. He created the central piece for the Grand Canal in Venice on the theme of dying Empires for an exhibition curated by Maurizio Bortolotti during last year’s Biennale and will be exhibiting more of his wisdom in Paris next.
ECHOES OF VOICES IN THE HIGH TOWERS
By Mafalda Millies
Galerie Nuke Galerie Analix Montgomery
Robert Montgomery
ECHOES OF VOICES IN THE HIGH TOWERS
July- October 2012
Tempelhofer Freiheit (main entrance to Airport Tempelhof Park), Columbiadamm 126, 10965 Berlin
