"There is no death. Just a change of cosmic address." This was Edgar Froese's lifelong credo, with which he philosophically tricked the reaper. His wife Bianca Froese-Acquaye organized a special event in honor of the cosmologist in Froese's hometown Berlin: a mixture of art show, reading and music. The foyer in the "Haus der Berliner Festspiele" is a suitable place, as the founder of Tangerine Dream received a scholarship from the "Berliner Akademie der Künste" in the early sixties. Friends, long-time fans and media representatives have now paid their respects to him. Among them are prominent guests such as director Volker Schlöndorff, star photographer Jim Rakete and fellow musician Christopher von Deylen (Schiller). Almost two hundred people were invited to the event, which focused on Froese's artistic oeuvre.
When entering the foyer one could admire several rows of the special pictures that Froese had designed as a graphic artist. "Zoom-O-Graphics," he called these digital visualizations of surrealist art. Many of the pictures are known as covers of Tangerine-Dream albums. But details and effect only unfold in their original size. Further inside in the foyer one also got an insight into the work of Bianca Froese-Acquaye, who shows her acrylic paintings inspired by Dante's "La Divina Commedia". This gives an overall picture of the work of the artist couple Froese/Acquaye. The sympathetic woman with the rasta plaits explains the idea of the event: "Of course Edgar's first anniversary of death was reason enough for me. I consciously wanted to show something else besides the music. It's been a tough year, but now you have to see Edgar's happy and colorful side again."
INFO: The exhibition "The Art Of How To Dream" can be seen until March 31, 2016 at the Morgenstern-Galerie, Budapester Straße 14, Berlin.
