Novantiqua Records

Till Ansgar Baumhauer: "Facing the personality of Carlo Gesualdo in his quality as artist and murderer, there was an importance in my artwork also to analyze the relations between aesthetics and violence or rather creative energy and destruction as well as the point when violence is aesthetified and, for that, not experienced any more as itself.In the actual series of works „children´s songs“ this aspect is combined with life and work of the italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.In the „Swan´s song project“ I compare different ways of societally justified acts of self destruction (early Christian martyrdom, japanese Kamikaze, islamist Jihad and the baroque fictitious commonplace of death for love) and overlap them"

Link: www.till-ansgar-baumhauer.de

Cd on Novantiqua: CD Terre senz'Acqua