“Our works are experimenting with the interaction of linguistic awareness and pictographic association, the ability of word and image to interpret and create.”

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Is what an artist has to say verbally more important than his/her visual work? In the case of the German pair Detlef Hartung and Georg Trenz, the founders of Hartung Trenz, they are often one and the same thing.

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This couple specialises in relating text-based projects to the real three-dimensional public spaces in which they are projected. The work of Hartung Trenz ranges from the creation of a flashlight to landscape projections.

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“The technical requirements and the adaption of the designed projection onto the site are often the same, the difference is the content.”

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http://www.hartung-trenz.de

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