Olaf Nicolai (*1962) eröffnet mit seinem Projekt "Every day at dusk ..." (1999/2007) das Jahresprogramm des Kunstvereins Langenhagen. Unter dem Titel "Große Gefühle ..." werden darin künstlerische Positionen diskutiert, in denen emotionale Zustände selbst, ihre unterschiedlichen Darstellungsweisen und Wahrnehmungen thematisiert werden.

With his project "Every day at dusk ..." (1999/2007), Olaf Nicolai (born 1962) will start the annual programme of the Kunstverein Langenhagen. Under the title "Große Gefühle ..." (Great Emotions..."), it will discuss artistic positions in which emotional states themselves, their various manners of expression and perception will be contextualised. The title implies well-known media clichés from heartbreak, great love, and the seemingly unavoidable loss of reason. Feelings and experiences on an emotional level, however, often form the prerequisites of rational knowledge. "Great Emotions" as a synonym for "great love" is a central theme within the entirety of art history. This is true for the representation of feelings as a pictorial motive as well as motives that trigger emotions when being viewed.

Olaf Nicolai's project adapts the idea of a shooting gallery at a fairground: According to the standard cliché, the idea of the hero shooting a rose is a central element his visit to a shooting match. His beloved anxiously receives the rose as proof of his love and affection. The situation could not be any more ambivalent: Only by shooting the sweet trophy does it seem possible to offer living proof of one's great feelings. The ambivalence contextualised in Nicolai's works also points out the complex correlation between violence and creative processes.