Cornelia Renz - Night. Tail. Pieces

Cornelia Renz's 'Night. Tail. Pieces' takes as its starting point the romantic novel 'Night Watches', published in 1805 under the pseudonym Bonaventura, and today attributed to the writer Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann. These 'Night Watches' are a dark and savage book, whose torn and strange storyline still today allows for another look at the dark side of man. Renz refers to the 'Night Watches' in formal terms depicting the dark, non-public aspects of human behaviour and providing a peek behind the bourgeois façade. She draws on reverse glass painting, on images of saints, on other 19th century imagery, as well as pornographic material, and creates powerful collages of historic charm and yet exciting, contemporary themes.