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“I want to do something good for the world. I’m taking you all with me on a journey,” says German artist Hans-J\u00f6rg Georgi, whose exhibition “Noah\u2019s Planes” was on view at Christian Berst<\/a> gallery in Paris, France, from Dec. 8, 2022, to Jan. 22, 2023.<\/p>\n

The exhibition featured an armada of model planes that Georgi glued together from cut-up shoeboxes.<\/p>\n

“Born in Frankfurt in 1949, Hans-J\u00f6rg Georgi grew up in one shelter after another. A badly treated poliomyelitis drastically deprived him of the use of his legs,” according to the gallery.<\/p>\n

Georgi imagines his aircraft “running on solar energy rather than gasoline, they are part of his project of osmosis between man and machine. Taking part in a utopian world, these ‘six floors’ are inhabited by characters imagined and drawn by the artist, and are equipped with dormitories, a hospital, a bowling alley and a discotheque. They are intended to ensure the space travel of humanity in search of its survival far from the Earth,” the gallery writes.<\/p>\n

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