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Art History
art@huber
The end justifies the art work. So, no objections can be made to any work of art that ultimately helps promote the Ministat’s and Tango’s reputation even in the most remote corners of the laboratory world, and the ever increasing degree of recognition that the Huber company has come to enjoy has to be accepted. The mini soccer players of the football club VFR Elgersweier that play for the Ministat (and have scored many a goal) and the youth's choir of the Elgerweier music club who beat the advertising drum for the Tango fortissimo are institutions that set the tone.
Tango fortissimo: The first president of Offenburg's municipal orchestra - a cultural expert and a majestic voice within the Offenburg city council - has set the second main proposition of the Tango philosophy to music. "It Takes Two To Tango". If you have the sound on your computer turned on then listen to this.
With quite an uproar, Friedrich Ruf (from Elgersweier) became the German Motorcycle Champion in the 50 and in the 65 cc class. Wearing his protective suit sponsored by Huber (safety first), Friedrich did promotion work for the Tango's speed. That was music in our ears, and we are wild about the commotion. Art@huber, on the other hand is more a feast for eyes and emotions. Tango piano for bon vivant:
The cultivated never regret pleasure; the uncultivated do not know what pleasure is (Oscar Wilde). Art@huber tells the story of the Tango Factory, as well as the history of the differences and similarities that exist between the Tango-Alemanno and the Tango-Argentino. Guy Respaud's seven piece collection (7 canvasses measuring 1.3 by 1.3 meters) can be admired in the Tango Factory's cafeteria and the Tango Factory's thermodynamic works of art can be admired at www.temperiertechnik.de and at www.huber-online.com as well as in thousands of laboratories around the world. A few examples can be found in the second gallery "concrete art". Now, though, it is time to let the hammer and chisel and the graphic art paintbrushes tell their story.
Navigate through the website by either clicking on the title of the art work on the left-hand side, or using the scrollbar on the right-hand side. Click on a picture to make it larger (a further click closes the window with the enlarged picture). You can also order posters of the paintings from Guy Respaud's seven-piece collection (6-12).
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It Takes Two to Tango
Guy Respaud
The second proposition of the Tango philosophy stipulates that you need two to tango. Thermodynamics and microelectronics are the two necessary ingredients that make a Tango run. In order to really enjoy it all, the love of technology is necessary for both the Tango user and the Tango inventor. According to the treaty of "Hohes Horn" - which is valid as long as the 534 meter-high mountain still stands - the younger Huber brother (Joe) has to build what the older one (Daniel) can sell and vice versa. It takes two to tango - everything evolves around this principle.
During the many years that the French painter Guy Respaud designed the title illustrations for the Bioblock Scientific catalog, he had the chance to observe how the Ministat and the Classic Unistat were taking over the French market. And after the Tango's conquest of the laboratory world, there was no stopping him from painting the Tango history. His seven-piece collection, which hangs in the cafeteria of the Tango Factory, represents the peak of his artistic work and, of course, a climax in Tango history. Prior to that, at the suggestion of Pierre Block, who made Huber Nr. 1 in French laboratories, Respaud had already united the Tango-Alemanno and the Tango-Argentino in his painting where they are virtually entwined.
Guy Respaud's first painting, "It Takes Two to Tango", caused quite a bit of excitement in the trade press. But what was really exciting about it, was the fact that the painter intuitively captured what makes the Tango technology so different from conventional technology. Guy Respaud didn't know, Pierre Block didn't know and no one at Huber knew what the two of them had cooked up. And we honestly didn‘t know what the Offenburg municipal orchestra had brewed up.
Because of our patriotic disposition we emphasize the fact that the Tango comes from Offenburg, and that is why the Offenburg city councilor Jess Haberer (vocalist) and the city music director Thomas Berger got together and redid Richard Myhill’s song "It Takes Two to Tango". It was first performed on May 21, 2004 at the "Reithalle" in Offenburg, drawing a grand round of applause. It was a cultural climax in Tango history and can be enjoyed if you get put on hold.
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The Eternal Tango - a Masterpiece
Kurt Grimm
Opus nostrum nobile esto, utile et bene factum. Our work should be noble, useful and well constructed. This is the first main proposition of the Tango philosophy. The Tango Factory created by the Aulendorf freelance architects Wilhelm and Antonia Kasten is an architectural masterpiece. This is a good reason not to bury the foundation stone 5 meters under the ground. In accordance with the building and its intended purpose, the top of the foundation stone is a chiseled Tango and in order to keep the patent documents safe from scoundrels, they have been embedded in its base in a stainless steel capsule (material number 1.4571). This capsule was constructed in an inert-gas-shielded arc welding process and ought to last.
The Eternal Tango hewn in stone by Kurt Grimm now stands in grass looking like the real thing. With charm and expertise architect Antonia Kasten and "building mayor" Edith Schreiner set it in the foundation and master mason Martin Lamm, president of the Freiburg chamber of handicrafts, stirred the mortar. Just after her choreographic masterpiece as "building mayor" Ms. Schreiner was elected chief mayor of Offenburg.
The Tango is the basis, the foundation stone of the big Unistats. They are thermodynamic works of art that artificially exceed the Offenburg's lowest natural temperature by a 100°C. The Eternal Tango, the stone of the knowledgeable, is a favorite backdrop for group pictures at the coldest spot in the Ortenau area. The real foundation stone of the Tango Factory, though, is the international Tango Club. The following collection of paintings is a real help to understanding what the excitement over the Tango is all about.
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We Thermoregulate and We Love Curves
Heinz Kaufmann
Performance and cooling curves by Heinz Kaufmann appeared on the cover of the 1980/81 Huber catalog. He also created the Huber-logo on a beer coaster in 1962 at the village tavern “Adler” during the long time-honored tradition of Fruhshoppen,- namely the habit of getting together for an early morning drink. A very old company, but we know that we have a younger look.
The Huber typeset will never get old. This graphic designer has not only shown that he can handle curves, but he is responsible for the appearance of the Ministat, a 1981 thermodynamic work of art. Even after a quarter of a century, it looks like it was just created yesterday.
Heinz Kaufmann possesses a clear conception of form and color. He also possesses the ability to persuade Ortenau housewives and lawyers into creating daring watercolor paintings in his evening classes. As a logical form of progression, it follows that the creator of the Huber font would also be the one to design the original Tango-logo making him once and for all a cultural asset of the Tango world.
Just in the nick of time, the painter and graphic artist, like Tomi Ungerer and Günter Grass, has turned his attention to nude paintings. And they get more beautiful, the curves, the older they get, the artists.
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Tango - a Homage
Beatrice Hasler
Beatrice Hasler is an encaustic artist and a founding member of the Swiss Tango Club and the first important artist in the history of the Tango. She is interested in the most modern form of thermoregulation, modern art and older painting techniques.
The peak of encaustic painting was during the classical period of Greek art - long before the discovery of oil painting. During the Middle Ages, the knowledge of this technique was lost. The Swiss artist reactivated it after the creation of the Tango. This 1995 painting is located at the beginning of the Tango history by Guy Respaud - because of its illuminating power and durability and because of our love of curves (cooling curves).
Some older examples of encaustic painting are the Egyptian mummy representations in room 62 of the British Museum in London and the National Museum in Cairo, as well as wall drawing from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Newer examples can be found in the Huber family's private quarters. Because of its symbolic power Beatrice Hasler's "Tango" can be admired at the entry of the Tango Factory and at the entry of IV. Act in the Huber Handbook of Thermoregulation.
After this enchanting and historically important Introduction, it is now time for Guy Respaud's brush to take over. His following seven piece Tango history can be admired in the Tango Factory’s canteen.
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Elgersweier
Guy Respaud
Elgerweier, the Mediterranean portion of Offenburg/Ortenau, headquarters of the Huber company and birthplace of the Tango-Alemanno, was first mentioned in a church document dated April 3, 1242 and issued by the bishop of Strasbourg, Berthold von Teck. 750 years later the Tango started out from here on its conquest of the laboratory world, first documented in an article in the German laboratory journal "LaborPraxis" in April 1988. The French painter Guy Respaud, who lost his heart to Ortenau and the Tango, picked up the scent and probed deeper into its meaning.
The first theme of his 7-piece Tango history shows the most common kind of distilling apparatus found in the Ortenau area. There are better looking booze brewers but none have been more beautifully drawn and this one has the advantage that it is located in the center of Elgerweier. It shows visitors the way to the local museum and that we are knowledgeable in the art of distillation-a precondition for understanding the Tango's refrigeration process.
There are about a thousand cherry trees surrounding the Tango Factory. That is enough raw materials to fuel 20 small distillers which produce the renowned Black Forest Kirsch. If a Black Forest Cake, Aunt Anna's specialty, doesn't have that distinct Kirsch taste then it is not the real thing. The German word for cherry is "Kirsche" and in the Alemanic dialect it is "Chriese". In Elgersweier and only in Elgersweier it is called "Tscherissli”. Compared to other frightening Black Forest masks, the traditional Elgersweier carnival mask portrayed in this picture is personified friendliness . This is a precondition for our international relationships.
During the time called the "Fifth Season", exceptions become the rule and the otherwise dominant rulers of Elgerweier are ousted and replaced by the "Tscherisslili" fools-guild from Little Paris, who then ordains that the children of Elgersweier, and only they, are allowed to pick cherries from the neighbors' orchard - if they don't tear off any branches and know the password: "Tscherissili dschore". This confirms the legend that we have French (Cerises) and Gypsy (dschore) ancestry. This is coquetry, but it is also a precondition for our export. After the industrialization of Elgersweier, the Tango is under the originals the last Gypsy from Little Paris. It has refrigerant liquid running through its veins. The world will have to watch out for it globally.
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Roots
Guy Respaud
Can you hear the sounds of the mill's water-wheel? In the second painting of Tango history Guy Respaud not only delves into the sentimental and emotional elements but also explores the technical roots. The bucket driven overshot mill wheel dating back to the sixteenth century served as the dowry of the miller's daughter Johanna Derendinger from Niederschopfheim. Her husband the miller Emil Huber from Oberachem used it to found the present-day Huber mill. Their descendents are millers as well as electro-mechanical engineers and refrigeration experts. The last mill water-wheel produced environmentally safe electricity well into the 20th century.
The thermodynamic branch of the Huber family is not as interested in producing electricity as in producing refrigeration that is efficient and environmentally safe. The industrialization that took place in the Upper-Rhine area is the reason why the Black-Forest Trout and the North-Sea Salmon had not been able to see each other alive for quite a while. This has changed now. Huber's first contribution to preserving the water supply was the Rotostat, which is filed with the German Patent Office and was awarded the Baden-Wurttemberg price for innovation. Looking at it from a technical viewpoint, the purpose of the Rotostat is to function as a rotary evaporator, but from a historical viewpoint it was a Trojan horse that went unnoticed by the pursuers of the Tango's predecessors. The Rotostat only consumes half as much energy and does not require any water at all. The result of the ensuing Tango development was that compared to ordinary units the Unistats and the Unichillers only require a 1/3 of the amount of water.
The ever so often voiced claims of "environmentally friendly technology" are still premature because nature has not yet furnished us with all the answers. Whether the eternal snow of the Kilimanjaro will soon be a thing of the past is important to us and for our significance. It can be proved, though, that the Tango Factory's self imposed CFC phase-out that was carried out prior to the government ban and the development of energy saving processes have been beneficial to the environment. The Black Forest ingenuity and quality you see when following the road from the cuckoo clocks to the Tango-Alemanno holds both sentimentality and coquetry. The painter hit the nail on the head. The Tango has not committed any sins since it's not contributing to the expansion of the ozone hole. It was the first to use natural coolants. Eco-friendliness and the dignity of the Tango are inviolable.
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Tango Querido
Guy Respaud
Thermodynamics and microelectronics - it takes two to tango. As is pointed out by the second main proposition of the Tango philosophy. Why the Tango is called tango? The tango is the dance that reaches the set point the fastest with the highest amount of precision ... five, six, seven and then you stop on a dime.
The development of the conventional technique is comparable to the development of the bandoneon that started out with three buttons. Ultimately, the many additional buttons did not change the essence of the tact and the method just as the many buttons of the microelectronic components in themselves do not change the essence of conventional laboratory temperature control equipment. It was the Tango, which utilizes the principle of mass reduction and has its own thermodynamic method that really got the ball rolling. The Tango can make the best controllers sweat and only the best controllers can bring the Tango to an exact stop at the set point.
Guy Respaud, who is not afraid to show any detail, intuitively hit upon the aspect that makes the Tango different from the conventional units. The painter could not have made the conditions that are required to achieve the Tango's precision and reaction rate any clearer and he could not have better illuminated the aspirations of the Tango inventor. The whole secret behind the fact that the Tango does not steam and does not smell is revealed in this aspect. On the dance floor, there is the question of using the right deodorant. On or under the laboratory bench, it is not only a question of using the right thermo oil (available at Huber oil) but it's also a question of using the right technique to keep smells and the evaporation of expensive liquids from happening in the first place.
The Tango is not only appreciated by people in love with technology but also by the economically minded. The Tango is passion and revolution. The Tango and Big Unistats have overcome the compromises of conventional thermoregulation technology by revolting against the prevailing order.
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Fire and Ice- Something Elementary
Guy Respaud
The grapes and expectations hang high when striving for a warm spot under -100°C. That is why there can be some really hot action in the coldest spot in the Ortenau Area. The painter Guy Respaud has x-ray eyes and swings his brush as accurately as a color printer. Above all, though, he has a feeling for history and a gift for capturing the elementary. "Fire and Ice" hints at the reason why his heart beats for the Tango. The reasons why he portrayed the heart of the Tango at the core of all the essential elements: its pump, gas separator, evaporator, high temperature cooler, sliding valve, cooling block. Cool! Astor Piazolla's score located between a penguin and a spotted fire salamander connects the deepest tones and the hottest emotions.
The Offenburg witch in the distance hints at the fact that the Tango is an Offenburger from the Ortenau area. This is an important aspect that differentiates this thermostat's family tree from that of the competition. The lowest temperature in Offenburg memory is -20°C. A temperature where frozen chicken feel somewhat comfortable. The Big Unistat's absolute zero is a hundred degrees less, namely -120°C. At the other end of the scale between 300 and 400°C all hell is let loose, as the Offenburg witch also relates.
Before the global circulation of the Tango and the big Unistats there was a general feeling of apathy in the world's thermoregulation community. Conventional methods had settled for the temperature span from -80 to 300°C. Whereas now there is some real excitement below and above this range. The Tscherissili-mask in the first painting of the Tango history collection just smiles at this.
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Genetic Roots
Guy Respaud
The painter Guy Respaud was the first person to look at the rainbow that spans the Kinzig River from an acute angle. He intuitively captured the core of the saturation curve in the enthalpy (h) / pressure (log p) chart for refrigerants namely, the borderline state in which the Tango achieves its best performance. The Kinzig River runs as a border between the village of Ortenberg and Elgersweier with the Ortenberg Castle hovering over the entire valley.
According to the philosopher Helmut F. Spinner the Kinzig's s-shaped bend in the Elgerweier coat of arms (see first painting of the collection) stands for "Spinner" as in his name. According to the people from Ortenberg, the Kinzig protects against strangers (i.e. non-Ortenbergers) running off with the beautiful women of the area. But this did not prevent the Tango Factory's co-founder from founding the thermodynamic subsidiary of the Huber family. According to the painter, the Kinzig bends tie together the Ortenau's thermodynamic and historical landmarks emotionally and geographically, thus, subtly unearthing the biological roots of the Tango Factory.
It takes two to tango as it is pointed out by the second main proposition of the Tango philosophy. After the autodidactic experience, it is clear that this is also the basis of founding a family that is not only able to produce a Tango but also to reproduce it. Today, the Ortenberg Castle originally built as the setting of big dreams now functions as the backdrop for big weddings. Their outcomes are still as uncertain as they ever were. The Tango infested co-founder of the Tango Factory did not live to see the fruits of her work. This good spirit hovers over the entire endeavor. Like the rainbow over the Kinzig.
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Thermodynamics
Guy Respaud
Art is beautiful but it is a lot of work (Karl Valentin). The painter of the Tango history worked day and night for nine months. It was his longest pregnancy. Now the weekly report number 103 on toothed gearing -written during practical training- belongs to the art work in cursive standard lettering. Guy Respaud is a perfectionist and a visionary as the next and last canvass of the collection shows but he is also a historian and as such he opposes the gradual disappearance of the non-abstract in painting.
Let us build a Tango. But it is not that easy. An adept party-goer knows van Gogh is not the center forward of the Dutch Soccer team, but thermodynamics are not an integral part of general education (Schwanitz). "I have never understood the second law of thermodynamics." A joyous round of knee slapping ensues with cries of "neither have I!" It is not really surprising that there are so many half-truths in circulation. A general idea accepted within the field of conventional thermoregulation is that using the most accurate control unit automatically creates the best thermostat. If it were left at that, the Tango would have never been invented. The optimistic view - "If Huber can do it, so can I" - is deceiving. The painter dug up the insignia and the elementary antiques of the Tango's pre-history and placed them around the nest. These go back as far as the awards issued by the state governments of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg.
The party-dog in the left corner is Otto - now buried under magnolia trees. He was the guard of the early Tango Factory. His full name is Gordy from the Castle Neu Windeck, from the Exeter line. Calculated in dog years he was as old as Queen's Mum but up to the very end he still did not have a single grey hair - a fact which first generation Tango Club members can confirm. The Offenburg shopkeepers in the pedestrian zone knew Otto (Gordy) as the dog that carried its own leash in its muzzle. Everyone who should be able to, must be allowed to want to.
The nest located in the lower corner of the canvass represents the Tango Factory's second generation. In the meantime they have all hatched and flown the coop in order to give wing to the Tango Factory.
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Plug & Play
Guy Respaud
According to natural law all men are created equal but thermostats are not. When looking at them from below, out of a bath perspective, general thermoregulation techniques are identical in the way they stir and agitate - with one exception. The microelectronics of Huber thermostats are based on a modular principle which came in from the cold in 1979. Designed by Huber and not by the self-proclaimed inventors of microelectronics. This is the concept from which the fifth proposition of the Tango philosophy was derived. Plug & Play - we can repair everything - whether you are at the other end of the globe or five minutes away from the next service center. The advantage of interchangeable plug-in technology is worth its weight in gold. In every situation, at any altitude and at all times.
In this last painting, the Tango is left to itself. Its microelectronics is a unique story, without comparison (see second gallery, "concrete art"). This image points to the overall situation and to the smallest decisive difference.
The new 2003 Polystat controller, a masterpiece of Plug & Play technology has everything called Huber, except for the Tango, in its grip. Just as the French painter foresaw from a Jules Verne perspective. Guy Respaus recognized that the octopus' brain is situated close to its heart. There is no denying that it was not only logic but also emotion that inspired the 1979 decision to produce Plug & Play modules.
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Ice Age
Fritz Bleichert
Faith in the Tango can move icebergs and the artists Vera Eisberg (four stations further on) and Fritz Bleichert can make icebergs melt with the power of their imagination and colors. Fantasy is something that many people cannot really grasp. The coldest spot in the universe is the Bose-Einstein-condensate. The coldest spot in the Ortenau area is the Tango Factory. Here we produce minus 120 degrees Celsius. The Ortenau artist Fritz Bleichert created his woodcut “Ice Age” in this environment, because he can imagine the next cold period beyond the looming global warming, and beyond the end of his own nose. Abstractly of course, and so it is the lower, the more Huber. As the second gallery "concrete art” clearly shows, everything begins in the imagination.
*) The Artist www.f-bleichert.de can also melt the heart of the proudest woman - and even aluminum. In his function as a universal genius, he can transform intricate music into forms and colors. This is something you have to see.
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Water and Ice
Eberhard Stefani
"Water And Ice" from Eberhard Stefani and "Fire And Ice" - Something Elementary -from Guy Respaud act as a overture to the second act in the Handbook of Thermoregulation Technology : Refrigeration Technology and Energy. It is obvious why German technical refrigeration specialists use images of penguins, polar bears or at least ice crystals. Yet, all these images have little in common with the Tango. The Tango is more than the sum of all its details and more than conventional refrigeration technology.
Water and Ice is a commissioned work created by Eberhard Stefani for a major birthday and an unmistakable hint. Daddy Cool is an aquarian - a fitting description. The members of the dance club "Lift-That-Leg" believe that there are other import things besides the Tango. But still: the international Tangoclub is our utmost authority.
Filetes: The two following pictures framed by intricate decorations were due to the Tango Calendar 2002 published by Boletin del Tango together with edition Graph Druckula (long live the legend). The decorative fillets were originally used to decorate horse drawn carts. Water carriers as well as dairy and vegetable merchants all painted their carts. The fillets functioned as a sort of frame and flowers were painted to decorate the interior areas. The wide side boards were often covered with some folk-saying like a tango text or the title of a tango. It was common to find texts, often composed in the local dialect, written inside the fillets, like the refrain of some song, some word of wisdom, a short joke or sometimes even something of questionable character. (Jorge Muscia, Boletin del Tango No.25).
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Mama, Do You See Me?
Graph Druckula
Jorge Virulazo, is the only one of the five sons who has continued to carry on the tango tradition of his famous father. In this picture he and the12 year-old Yésica Améndola, who he trains, are performing for mama and relatives. Outstanding ability does not grow on trees. This fundamental motif is an attempt to explain why we think it is so important to train youths and why we have so much fun doing so. The Tango Factory's six masters of refrigeration engineering have trained more than 80 engineers. Two of whom became state champions.
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No Need To Hurry, It's Not a Waltz!
Graph Druckula
In dubio pro tango. The process of the Tango-Alemanno - the Tango-Aleman as it is called in Spanish - provides speed and also helps preserve resources. This phenomenon is described in detail in the Handbook of Thermoregulation Technology. The Tango only affects the heart and is more favorable energy-wise than the waltz and disco-fox, which take a definite toll on your sense of balance and on your calves. The picture of the couple on the Pza. Dorrego creates an optimistic mood and hints at the fact that the Tango-Argentino is a procedure that preserves resources.
No corras, el tiempo no se acaba. Why hurry, time never ends.
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Eternity Lasts the Longest
Vera Eisberg
They have sworn eternal love to the Tango and have clearly done well by it (shades of the Tango Club). Vera Eisberg’s Tango couple illustrates that Tango guarantees dependability, longevity and, in the long run, energy savings. It follows its own rules and reaches its goal quicker than the others (shades of the reaction calorimeter that also has no time to lose). In the scientific journal, "Bild der Wissenschaft", combinatorial chemistry (planned coincidence) was used as an example to show that time plays an essential role for jewelry thieves as well as for the pharmaceutical industries.
Tempo needs Tango. Now it is (planned coincidence) a world wide reality, that Tango and the big Unistats have become essential for combinatorial chemistry and reaction calorimetry. Eternity lasts the longest, and time never ends, but for the more demanding tasks, time has run out for conventional temperature control applications.
See more genuine "Eisbergs": www.vera-kunst.de
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Made for the Tango from Head to Toe
Guy Respaud and Marlene Dietrich
It is clear why we are made from head to toe for the Tango. And for the Unistats and for the Unichilllers. That is our world. And for the Polystats and for the Ministats. And for nothing else. Marlene Dietrich was the first to sing it and Guy Respaud was the first to paint it. Looking at the details of "Cécilia" demonstrates the painter’s exacting gaze and his steady hand. It is not a photograph, every thread is real. Marlene Dietrich enjoyed flaunting the miracle of chemistry (created by DuPont). Every girl on the Rio de la Plata and on the Kinzig River has a pair of them or at least she has a girl friend who is crazy about them.
DuPont is not the only business which is mad about the Tango. Almost every chemical or pharmaceutical business has a representative in the Tango Club.
Guy Respaud’s “Cécilia“ is modelled on a photograph taken by Ineke Stutvoet. This tango-infected photographer had followed on the heels of the tango couple who were the inspiration for “it takes two to tango“ und “Tango Querido“ for six months. Ineke Stutvoet lives in Buenos Aires and can be contacted at www.ineke-photo.com to convey compliments (and take job offers).
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Tango Infection
Helga, Loretta, KiK and GO
Within the conventional temperature control domain, the Tango infection is looked upon as some kind of disease, which causes a positive sensation in the members of the Tango club. At the same time, there is a world wide euphoria spreading through the ballrooms of the tango Argentino, which has long since spilled over into the Ortenau area. On the other hand, this occurrence has not stopped the Tango Alemanno from spreading because the danger of infection is also high within the margins of the Tango club. Alexandra Baumann-Krantz, editor of the journal "Galerie Ortenau" was infected by the performance of the dancer Silke Beba in "KiK". In her article she cheerfully describes the course of the disease.
But: "You cannot believe how hard it is to find a man to dance the tango with" ... That is probably the reason why the Tango Alemanno first appeared on the thermostat dance floor a hundred years later than the Tango Argentino. It materialized like a fox in a chicken coop because up till then, the trade was in the habit of dancing the waltz no matter what music was playing. Now that has all changed. The reason for this can be seen in the second gallery which features concrete art. If you have the time …
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The two couples dancing the tango (Fig. 2 and 3), a souvenir from Montmartre, is a gift from a close friend of ours, Helga Kneucker (cocomedia@web.de) ), who is crazy about the Tango. She keeps the founder and long-time chief editor of the German laboratory journal, "LaborPraxis" happy. She also uses every chance she has during her expansive world travels to look for and find something to keep the Tango's creators in "Little Paris" happy. According to current findings, the course of the Tango infection is mutual and reciprocal. The tango couple from the Montmartre can be admired alternately in the Tango factory and in the former Ihlefeld barracks, where Loretta Bös has established a cultural center, Kultur in der Kaserne (KiK), for peaceful purposes and for holding tango events.
KiK is the top cultural address in Offenburg and is located just around the corner from the “Reithalle”, where the municipal orchestra first performed the hymn of the international Tango club. It also has the city's most attractive landmark right outside its front door (Fig. 4). "FREEDOM - FEMALE/MALE", a very expressive sculpture from Jonathan Borofsky located on the “Platz der Verfassungsfreunde” ( Friends-of-the-Constitution Square) has been included in the sightseeing program of the international friends of the Tango. Its true message leaps out at you: "it takes two to tango".
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Thermodynamic Works of Art
art@huber
You should always be wary of good intentions, especially if they are your own (Johannes Gross). The Tango Club does not live on the fine arts alone but also on the thermodynamic works of art, which have been created in the studios of the Tango Factory. Visitors to this gallery might think that they have been lured via the fine art of the painters (“abstract art”) to the fine art of the Minstat-Unitstat-Tango creators (“concrete art”). And you are right! But now that you are here, just lean back, relax and enjoy this interesting tour.
