Morgenröte. Łukasz Huculak sieht Jacob Böhme

In the organizer's words:

Jacob Böhme (1575-1624), a shoemaker from Görlitz, is one of the most important German thinkers of the early modern period. His fundamental ideas have had a lasting influence on literature, philosophy, religion and art over the centuries. Leibniz and Goethe, Schelling, Hegel and Philipp Otto Runge all drew inspiration from him, as did contemporary artists around the world - including the painter and draughtsman Łukasz Huculak (*1977), Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, winner of numerous prizes and awards, whose multifaceted work is represented in numerous public and private art collections in Poland and Germany.

Jacob Böhme was convinced that the world would change if people changed. Referring to the lily as a symbol of hope and renewal, he called the coming era of peace "Lily Time". His work is based on powerful images, metaphors, visions and models. He is credited with thinking in images, thinking in symbolic forms.

Łukasz Huculak has long been intensively involved with the philosopher and reflects his world of thought in his artistic work. Böhme's first and probably most influential work is entitled "Aurora oder die Morgenröte im Aufgang" from 1612. It is the starting point for an installation developed especially for the Studiolo in Dresden's Residenzschloss, in which Huculak explores Böhme's significance in the present day. He uses it to refer to pantheism and theodicy, Neoplatonic mysticism and Kabbalistic combinatorics, astrology and the natural philosophy of the Renaissance.

Huculak's paintings are joined in the presentation in the Studiolo by "electrical paintings" and accessories from the Physics Cabinet in the Museum of Cultural History of the Görlitz Collections. There is also an exciting dialog with exhibits from the surrounding collection presentation "Kunstkammer. World view and knowledge around 1600."