Michelangelo
laid bare

In the Sistine Chapel the view to heaven deceives the eye with considerable finesse: Michelangelo`s ceiling frescoes simply create an illusion. Thanks to restauration efforts, the original colours now manifest themselves once again. We are rewarded with what the American magazine “Life”  (in its article about the restauration work) so succinctly labelled: A Clear View of Heaven.

Rather like a restaurator, the director Joachim Schlömer also constructs a link between then and now. He creates a space in which musicians move – where the Baroque and the pop singer fuse into one single, dual figure. And where above all the question emerges: where are we from? In the archaeological process of restauration we scrape something free and perhaps find answers beneath.
 
A Clear View of Heaven is a plea for scientific procedures to be taken as an opportunity to test hypothoses and thereby put myths out of joint. Whatever emerges out of this then opens up new questions. Which in turn alters each time the reality of our existence.