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This year, the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection’s annual reorganisation of its exhibition in the Marstall focuses on two contemporary artists: the photographer Kai Bornhöft and the painter Frank Tornow. For the first time, the concept of complementary contrast emerging from the juxtaposition of their works also determines the hanging of the collection’s own holdings.
The principle of the unusual juxtaposition plays an important role in Surrealism: ‘As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table’, as Lautréamont put it – a quote cited by André Breton in the First Manifesto of Surrealism. For the surprising encounter between things that one does not usually associate with one another gives rise to a third element, a mystery that stimulates our perception and is capable of …
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Image above: Frank Tornow, Sombra, Hokkaido und Apfel, 2025, Öl auf Holz © Frank Tornow, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026.
