God” – whoever is the creator of the image-formed world – cannot supply the deception, i.e. pretend the factual pure or impure, true or untrue. Only the human being can do that, and he is able to do still more; he can also lie and cheat, proceed violently or murder nonsensically, no matter whether the factual is accepted by him profanely or sacrally, manipulated or comes about simply by fraud. The viewer sees himself watching by taking up visual offers and thus switching off seeing, while he approvingly believes everything – be it dependent or independent, be it profane or sacral. …

… The dreamer is asked to believe and agree to what he or she can only partially recognize in the waking state, just like the viewer in front of the picture, who follows the parable of seeing and transfers it to the reality of the image. …



SOMNIUM – The Reality of the Image. EVA Berlin-Kulturforum Staatliche Museen Berlin, 2017

Exhibition accompanying the lecture | A project by Detlef Günther and Arthur Engelbert


SOMNIUM-scetchbook (pdf_german)






Somnium | Floating Hug




Approval | Silkscreen prints, each: 70 cm x 50 cm





The 21st Century – Confessio (The 700-year-old Dream)

Installation, mixed media (draft 2017)


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