Michael Triegel

The question of whether there can be a just and benevolent God in the face of human suffering and misfortune has repeatedly preoccupied theology and philosophy. Does it still have any relevance for the enlightened man of the 21st century? The publication “Michael Triegel. Cur Deus – Why God?” is published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthalle Rostock. The catalog shows around 70 works by the artist – paintings, drawings and etchings – that shed light on Triegel’s examination of faith. In keeping with Triegel’s method of drawing on iconographic, art-historical, literary and philosophical sources, the pictures are accompanied by texts: quotations from the Bible, poems by Paul Celan and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, set pieces from the works of Dostoyevsky or from Marcel Proust’s Lost Time. In juxtaposition with Triegel’s works, they once again open up completely new ways of seeing and interpreting.

-The catalog is out of print