Euphoria at Tick Tack

Artists: Adriano Amaral, Manuel Burgener, Anna Franceschini, Anna K.E., Takuro Tamayama

Exhibition title: Euphoria

Curated by: Domenico de Chirico

Venue: Tick Tack, Antwerp, Belgium

Date: November 9 – December 21, 2019

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Tick Tack, Antwerp

What if the object became euphoric?

Euphoria: from the Greek εὐφορία, means the union of êu (‘good’) and phéro (‘I bring), therefore to bring good.

Here, the fundamental question is: does euphoria lie in the triggering cause or in the subject on which it is unleashed? In psychoanalytic terms it is interpreted as a state of rebellion, as a fervor due to an unconscious reaction. However, the more lasting and broader theory of the French writer and essayist Pascal Bruckner, states that ‘perpetual euphoria’ lies entirely on the surface. The goods and objects that in our contemporary life aspire to well-being are even seen by Bruckner as beings who possess their own energy that aim at and claim happiness. And here we come to another, more mysterious form of euphoria, attributable to the euphoric states caused by drugs, in which everything is blended, where the ‘bearer of good’ is neither the user nor the substance.

Euphoria means being in the world in the liveliest possible way that tends to genius, delirium, crisis and eros as tension.

What if this thing that stands before me in its rigorous arrogance, through its aesthetic hyperbole, was in a euphoric state that can only belong to the world of things, or rather that of art?

Text by Domenico de Chirico

Disbelief 1, A limited edition by Manuel Burgener in collaboration with Fabien Marti (b. 1979, Switzerland) will be produced and presented during the opening night. Photo paper unexposed, metal, shirt produced in Bern (CH) & Antwerp (BE) signed and numbered edition of 8 collaboration with Fabian Marti

Adriano Amaral, Untitled, 2018, Horse ribs, acrylic tubes, finger protector, silicone, aluminum powder, electric cable, 38.1 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm, Courtesy GRIMM, New York

Manuel Burgener, D-eye, 2019, Glass, wires, Variable dimensions, N.A.

Euphoria, 2019, exhibition view, Tick Tack, Antwerp

Manuel Burgener, Untitled, 2018, Metal, glass, t-shirt, 60 x 48 x 51 cm, Courtesy Maria Bernheim, Zürich

Takuro Tamayama, Spinning Mop (Red hair), 2019, Stainless steel, wigs, motor and etc – 170 x 65 x 3 cm, Courtesy Nonaka-Hill, L.A.

Adriano Amaral, Untitled, 2019, Acrylic tubes, roots, prosthetic rubber, electric cables, aluminum powder, 63×33, Courtesy Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paulo, N.A.