The exhibition at Bogenšperk Castle presents different homelands within a complex concept. It regards home as an assembly of deep bonds between people and space. At the same time it explores home and considers it from various perspectives. What interests the artist in particular is the attitude of modern people towards their home. The works surprise the visitor, who at first stares at the abstract and extremely colourful pieces, which simultaneously conceal the contours of human figures and the spaces of the everyday world. Through the coloured transparent wall the human figures appear as distant illusions of different homelands. The works presented are meant to awaken key stimuli in the viewer through colour and figure, so that their meaning can be understood. It therefore seems that a confusion reigns in the works; but with prolonged viewing and reflection we recognise that the images are connected in a system with many meanings. The various stimuli open many connections to the viewer's unconscious and at the same time create a common thread through the entire body of exhibited work. It seems as though they had come into being in a single movement — arranged as if in an enormous polyptych of different visual places, homelands and references to the present world. Artist and viewer connect at the point where the images turn into irritating, disturbing and “in a certain way forced” stimuli.
König therefore considers a multitude of fields and different perceptions of individuals with different identities and different homelands. Exploring the love of home, he comes to the following conclusion, and I quote: “For me a personal home means far more than merely the physical space, the place where I was born or where I live. There are many places in this world where I have felt at ease and with which I could identify. These places have different cultures and traditions that I was able to discover, and they have widened my view of the world.” So, dear visitors, I warmly invite you to discover the colourful, manifold homelands of modern people and of the artist.
Mag. Ana Kocjančič is an art historian of the modern era.