Future7

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Future7 is Nikolai von Rosen and Florian Wojnar. Their recent book, “Pas de deux” was published in March by argobooks, a small Berlin-based publishing company. The book takes as its departure point the notion of the portrait and develops from work made completely by Future7 and an anonymous collaborator. The interlacing trajectories foreground the ambiguous relation between biography and autobiography, which are collectively reconciled in the book as a formal overlapping of text and collage.

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Kollektor Bauschke

What image do I have of the Modern? It is white, and technical. Like here. The room is white, almost empty. Only in front is a platform, a stage, also white. The technology, actually electronics, stands on it. That is the second quality of the Modern. Everything is imprisoned in another medium. I look out the window, the tower is still there. Otherwise everything as usual. Suddenly music starts up. Bach, I recognise it immediately. And it at once breaks into bell-like noise. The video begins. A picture, then black again. A new picture. It shows a television: a man comes into an illuminated stairway and goes up the stairs. Scene and clothing indicate the first half of the 20th century. After this sculptures line up. Only details can be seen on which details of works of art are shown . They could be the grounds for the pictures. The pictures communicate with their surroundings, with the colourful wall behind. Picture frames appear in detail, and chairs with colourful covers can be seen. …The television appears again. It’s still on. This time the man goes down the lighted stairs, turns around again and looks back. The picture disappears, the monitor goes dark again. A new selection of pictures gleams in the same pattern. The music becomes gradually clearer. Now three people are playing piano, now only two, and now just one. They have played the same piece, each apparently in his own way. The video shows a third and a fourth episode. I notice the way I am looking again at the stage as a whole and ask myself whether someone is about to step onto it. Or is he already there?