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Even at events, despite the best planning and preparation, a salon evening can turn out very differently at the last moment. Instead of listening to chansons, the audience learned and experienced the life stories of two artists who could not be more different in their artistic expression, yet whose life paths have many similarities. The central question of the evening was: how does creativity arise in art? The guests followed with interest how a lifelong, childlike curiosity, the joy of playing and experimenting, as well as the necessary perseverance and persistence, have significance for the artistic process. Visible in the works of Gerold Jäggle, vividly explained, audible in the piano playing of Murat Parlak, breathtakingly performed. Whether it was the works of old masters, their own compositions, or spontaneous improvisations, a concert of unusual pieces, entirely without notes, from memory and the present.
The intellectual bracket was a quote by Rutger Bregman, Dutch philosopher, author, and journalist: "I mean to play in a broad sense – the freedom to go wherever curiosity leads. To search and to discover, to experiment and to create. Not along lines, but just because. For the fun of it.”
Photographer: Matthias Sienz