Drawing on the new understanding of perception discovered in brain activity studies, Bodo Korsig looks at love, memory, pain and beauty from a formally scientific perspective and how consciousness is so lonely, yet so universal.
Bodo Korsig is fascinated by love, which he calls a “superpower”, it can make one lose all objectivity and perform crazy, often even self-destructive actions. Love, mortality, memory, poetry, the science of brain research, and the never-ending question of what constitutes consciousness.
“Love, like an infection, makes our brains weak. It is the most powerful destructive force, but at the same time Love is the source of the most powerful energy. Only love can save the world. “
From a 21st century perspective, Bodo Korsig has come to the conclusion that all this chaos is the result of chemical compounds created by brain neurons, and asks if it is possible to identify the home of love in the gray matter of our skulls.
Are we our brains? Do the chemical compounds they cause completely control our emotions and actions? These are questions that Bodo Korsig began to explore in depth more than 20 years ago, when he first visited the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University and met its founder, Nobel laureate Erik Kandel, known for his groundbreaking research into the physiological basis of memory processes. In his works, Bodo Korsig asks an ironic question about whether it is possible to get rid of unpleasant memories…
“I aim to offer a message, but never an uncontroversial statement. I want this experience to be more like life itself, which is full of signs and symbols that we encounter and interpret.”
Bodo Korsig (1962) was born in Zwickau, Germany. Lives and works in Trier (Germany) and New York (USA). Graduated from the Sculpture and Stone Restoration sub-sector at the Technical School of Advertising and Design in Berlin ( FWG Berlin) (1990). Since the beginning of his creative activity, Bodo Korsigu has been interested in various forms of art – sculpture, photography, video, installation and scenography. In collaboration with international writers and poets – John Ashbery (USA), Peter Wawerzinek (DE), Paul Oster (USA) and Akira Tatehara (JPN), Bodo Korsig has created designs for more than 40 limited edition art books. In addition to sculptures and installations, Bodo Korsig has realized many projects in public spaces, including the work “State of Mind” (“State of Mind”, 2012) in Erbeskopf (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and the installation “Connecting the dots – challenge the status quo” (“Connecting the given – Challenge the status quo”, 2018) in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan.
Bodo Korsig’s works are in more than 50 public collections and museums around the world, including: Deutsche Telekom Art Collection (Leipzig, Germany), Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Frankfurt, Germany), Villa Zanders Art Museum (Bergisgladbach, Germany), Dresden State Art Museum Kupferstich-kabinett Print Collection (Dresden, Germany), Vienna Academy of Arts (Vienna, Austria), Czech Museum of Fine Arts (Prague, Czech Republic), Luxembourg National Museum of Art and History (Luxembourg), New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York, USA), Brooklyn Museum of Art, (New York, USA), Washington National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA), Yale University Art Gallery, Special Collection (New Haven, Connecticut, USA), Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, Illinois, USA) , Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Kaohsiung, Taiwan),Te Papa Tongarewa New Zealand Museum (Wellington, New Zealand).
