GEORGI hans-jörg

Hans-Jörg Georgi had already created thousands of drawings of airplanes and children when he joined the atelier Goldstein. He then undertook the creation of a real aircraft fleet, by the hundreds, from shoe boxes cut into pieces that he assembled with glue. Each plane looks like a stranded boat – a kind of Noah’s Ark – dented, with an anthropomorphic face. The man, animal and technology merge together. One of his favorite models is called the “Bomber” [Bomber, Bombardier], a “man-machine”, a visionary flying machine. Hans-Jörg Georgi asks the following: How will we survive? How will we ascend to touch the sky? “My work, my planes are like me […]. I want to do something good for the world. I take you all with me to travel. In fact, I’m a good person, sometimes I am a little strict […]. I want to give you all twenty points, you’ve earned them! You too!”

12 minutes . HD . German, French subtitles . Camera, Edit and Graphic Design / César Decharme . Telecinema / Antonio Lizzio . Executive production / Barbara Safarova . Production abcd and Système B 2014

ABDELARRAZZAK aouam

1956 . khouribga . morocco

Aouam Abdellarrazzak, nicknamed Ralhi (“elder brother”), was born in a mining town south of Casablanca. He originally did truck maintenance for a print shop, but the business went bankrupt. His marriage fell apart, and on top of it he landed in prison for involuntary manslaughter, which sent him into deep depression and resulted in his drug addiction. With the help of his older sister, he managed to control his addiction and found a precarious equilibrium in drawing. His work depicts hybrid characters in which plant and animal shapes are intertwined with human faces. Abdellarrazzak long viewed his art as nothing more than a meaningless pastime and even threw some of his drawings away.