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<title><![CDATA[Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes]]></title>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="body">Suburbia has long been perceived as a site of relentless homogeneity. In the last 30 years, this perception has eroded, as growing numbers of minorities, immigrants, and non-traditional families make their homes in the suburbs. Likewise, the repetitious subdivisions, shopping malls, and retail strips of suburbia have proven to be only the most immediately recognizable elements of a complex physical and psychic terrain. Through architectural models and drawings, installations, animations, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and videos, over 30 artists and architects reflect on and propose ideas for suburbs, provocatively exposing the fascinating layers of these deceptively familiar places.</p>
<p class="body"><em>Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes</em> is organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from The Heinz Endowments, John Taft, and Home Depot. The programs of the Heinz Architectural Center are made possible by the generosity of the Drue Heinz Trust. General support for the museum’s exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional Asset District.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Konzept Deutsch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 style="line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">Nomadic Settlers </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-style:normal;" lang="EN-GB">–</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;"> Settled Nomads</span></h1>
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<h4 style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Intro </span></h4>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Immer schon hatte der Mensch das Bedürfnis umherzuziehen, zu reisen, den Blick über seinen gewohnten Horizont hinaus zu werfen. In Literatur und Kunst finden sich zahlreiche Werke, die diese menschliche Sehnsucht nach der Fremde thematisieren. Mindestens ebenso umfangreich sind jedoch auch die Arbeiten, die sich mit dem Gegenteil befassen: dem Bedürfnis des Menschen nach einer Heimat, nach einem festen, vertrauten Lebensmittelpunkt, an dem er sich ansiedeln kann, der ihm Schutz und Sicherheit bietet. Sesshaft sein und nomadisch umherwandern, die Sehnsucht nach der Fremde und die Sehnsucht nach der Heimat sind zwei Seiten des Menschen, die sich zu widersprechen scheinen und doch nicht voneinander zu trennen sind. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Geradezu paradigmatisch für dieses Paradox ist die Romantik, in der beide Bedürfnisse des Menschen zu zentralen Motiven geworden sind. Sich auf Wanderschaft begeben, hinaus in die weite Welt ziehen ist ein häufig wiederkehrendes Moment, das in Gemälden und Texten umgesetzt wird: Mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter steht etwa das Bildpersonal in Caspar David Friedrichs „Kreidefelsen auf Rügen“ (1818) und blickt auf das weite Meer hinaus. Zugleich ist in den politisch sehr bewegten Zeiten des späten 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts der Wunsch nach dem wahren Zuhause, die Suche nach der ursprünglichen Natur der Welt als der Heimat aller Menschen ein treibendes Moment, das etwa in Eichendorffs Gedicht „Mondnacht“ zum Ausdruck kommt: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt;text-align:justify;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel / Die Erde still geküßt, / Daß sie im Blütenschimmer / Von ihm nun träumen müßt./<span> </span>[... ]<span> </span>/ Und meine Seele spannte / Weit ihre Flügel aus, / Flog durch die stillen Lande, / Als flöge sie nach Haus</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">(J. v. Eichendorff, Mondnacht, 1837). </span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align:justify;"><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-family:Arial;">Nomadic Settlers </span></em><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">vs<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">. Settled Nomads</span>: HEIMAT </span></em></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Was ist Heimat? </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Wo ist Heimat? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Ist Heimat der Geburtsort oder der Wohnort? Das Dorf, die Stadt, das Land, der Kontinent, in dem man lebt? Oder ist das räumliche Zuhause nicht vielmehr nur eine Facette eines sehr komplexen Phänomens, das allen vertraut ist, mit dem man sich jedoch selten bewusst auseinandersetzt? Spielt das soziale Zuhause, die Freunde, die Familie, die Traditionen und Gebräuche nicht mindestens eine ebenso bedeutende Rolle? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Lässt man sich ein auf die zunächst simpel klingende Frage nach der Heimat, eröffnen sich Antwortmöglichkeiten, die ebenso zahlreich wie subjektiv sind.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Der Großteil der Europäer etwa, die über die Jahrhunderte eine sesshafte Lebensweise entwickelt haben, wird Heimat in irgendeiner Form als einen räumlichen Rückzugsort lokalisieren, der Schutz und Sicherheit gewährt. Ein nomadisches Volk hingegen wird andere Antworten finden: Die Welt an sich ist Heimat, in der man in und mit der Gruppe lebt. Heimat bekommt eine zeitgebundene Konnotation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Die Verbundenheit mit einer geografischen Heimat weckt starke Emotionen wie Liebe, Stolz, Patriotismus, wie sie etwa in der großangelegten Kampagne „Du bist Deutschland“ im Vorfeld der Fußball-WM 2006 propagiert wurden. Diese Gefühle werden einem umherziehenden Nomaden abgesprochen, der keine räumlich lokalisierbare Heimat hat. </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Die Heimatgefühle können jedoch auch umschlagen und in entgegengesetzte Extreme ausarten: Die (zu) starke Fixierung auf die eine Heimat weckt ein übersteigertes Schutzbedürfnis des Zuhauses, das Fremde als Eindringlinge abwehren und sich gegen „Feinde“ und „Bedrohungen“ verteidigen muss. Heimat kann Abgrenzung und Diskriminierung, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Rassismus auslösen. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Der nomadischen Lebensweise wird meist mit Skepsis begegnet, aber ist das Umherziehen den sesshaften Siedlern heute wirklich so fremd? Reisen, Wohnortwechsel, Berufspendeln </span><span style="font-size:10pt;">–</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> leben nicht auch sie bestimmte Formen des Nomadismus? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Nomadic Settlers? Settled Nomads?</span></p>
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<h3 style="text-align:justify;"><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-family:Arial;">Nomadic Settlers </span></em><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">vs<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">. Settled Nomads</span>: WANDERSCHAFT</span></em></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Durch das Reisen und die Begegnung mit anderen Orten, Ländern und Kulturen öffnet sich der Blick für das Andere. Mit der räumlichen Bewegung über die gewohnten Grenzen der Heimat hinaus geht auch eine geistige Entgrenzung einher. Gegenseitige Akzeptanz und Verständnis wachsen. Nicht umsonst heißt es „Reisen bildet“. Ebenso bietet das Reisen aber auch die Chance, die eigene Heimat wirklich zu sehen und zu schätzen. <em>„Erst die Fremde lehrt uns, was wir an der Heimat haben“</em> (Theodor Fontane).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoHeading8" style="line-height:150%;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;">Historisch</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Die Wanderschaft sowohl von Völkern als auch von einzelnen Menschen ist so alt wie die Menschheit. Die Zeit der Völkerwanderungen als Übergangsphase von der Spätantike zum Frühmittelalter ist zum feststehenden Begriff geworden. Da diese Umsiedlungsbewegungen jedoch oft mit kriegerischen Begegnungen, Zerstörung und materiellem Niedergang verbunden waren, wird der Begriff der Völkerwanderung meist mit negativen Assoziationen verbunden. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Übersehen wird dabei, dass die Wanderschaften von Völkern wie von einzelnen Personen und Gruppen einen nicht unwesentlichen Beitrag geleistet haben für die Verbreitung von technischen Errungenschaften und Kultur. Wie sonst hätte sich Wissen verbreiten können? Beispielhaft sind etwa die Bauhütten im Mittelalter, deren Baumeister und Handwerker von einer Baustelle zur nächsten zogen. Anders hätte sich der gotische Stil in relativ kurzer Zeit nicht so erfolgreich und flächendeckend ausbreiten können.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Gerade Künstler haben sich zu allen Zeiten oft nur für einen begrenzten Zeitraum an einem bestimmten Wohnort aufgehalten – etwa, um dem Ruf eines neuen Auftraggebers zu folgen wie Leonardo da Vinci an den französischen Hof oder Peter Paul Rubens, der als Diplomat und Künstler in Spanien, Frankreich und England tätig war. Oft geschah es auch aus eigenem Antrieb, so etwa bei dem Großteil der Künstler der frühen Moderne wie Pablo Picasso, Henry Miller,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst oder Joan Miró</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">, die es in die Kunstmetropole ihrer Zeit, nach Paris zog. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText3"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;">Heute</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Auch heute bestimmt der Nomadismus nach wie vor den globalen Alltag. Wanderarbeiter in China reisen den megalomanischen Bauprojekten an der Westküste hinterher, um für einen Hungerlohn unter oft lebensgefährlichen Bedingungen auf ungesicherten Baustellen zu arbeiten. Billiglöhner aus dem Vorderen Orient leisten in Dubai geringqualifizierte Arbeiten, leben in Massenunterkünften vor der Stadt mit miserablen sanitären Anlagen und werden Tag für Tag an ihre Arbeitsstellen gekarrt. Wer seine Arbeit verliert, hat das Land innerhalb von 30 Tagen zu verlassen.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText3" style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Aber auch in Deutschland ist die Arbeitsmigration – neudeutsch: Jobnomadismus – (wieder) ein hochaktuelles Thema. Jobnomaden sind gezwungen, der Arbeit und dem Geld hinterherzuziehen. Sie verlassen ihre Familie, ihr soziales Umfeld, ihre vertraute Umgebung. Nicht immer geschieht dies aus freien Stücken. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Nomadic Settlers? Settled Nomads?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">Ausstellung: </span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant:small-caps;font-family:Arial;">Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads</span><strong></strong></p>
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<h1 style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;">Ausstellung</span></em></h1>
<h1 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">Die Gruppenausstellung <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads</span> gehört zu einem Ausstellungs-Triptychon, das sich mit der umfangreichen Thematik des Heimatgefühls der Menschen in seinen vielschichtigen Facetten beschäftigt. Die Teile 1 und 2 finden im Herbst 2008 statt: <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">This world is not my home,</span> Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin<a name="_ftnref1" href="#_ftn1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> und <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Consciences and Frontiers</span>.</span></h1>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Der zeitliche und räumliche Abstand bietet die Chance eines Szenen-Wechsels, der neue Blickwinkel auf die Thematik ermöglicht. Fragen, die aufgeworfen wurden, können aus der Distanz erneut aufgegriffen, weitergedacht, neu angegangen werden. Eingeladen werden junge internationale Künstler, von denen einige bereits an den ersten Teilen mitgewirkt haben, andere neu an Bord geholt werden. Während die erste Gruppe von Künstlern ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik reflektieren und weiterentwickeln kann, bringen die anderen Künstler neue Impulse und Perspektiven ein. Ein Prozess der Kommunikation von Künstlern und Werken, eigenen und fremden Projekten, alten und neuen Arbeiten setzt ein, an dem die Besucher der Ausstellung aktiv teilhaben. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Für <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads</span> werden sechs internationale Künstler eingeladen, sich mit dem Paradox im Wesen des Menschen, seiner Sehnsucht nach der Fremde und der Sehnsucht nach einer Heimat auseinanderzusetzen. Sie beschäftigen sich mit Fragen, die das umfangreiche Thema aufwirft – seien es globale Phänomene, sei es die Situation in ihrem Land, sei es ihre persönliche Lebenssituation – und formulieren mit den Möglichkeiten der Kunst ihre individuelle Sichtweise, ihren persönlichen Kommentar zu der im Konzept umrissenen Thematik. Dabei soll es nicht Ziel sein, Antworten zu finden, sondern Fragen aufzuwerfen, Probleme bewusst zu machen, zum Nachdenken anzuregen. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Die ausgewählten Künstler mit verschiedenen Nationalitäten und Lebensmittelpunkten auf der ganzen Welt arbeiten mit unterschiedlichen Gestaltungsmedien und thematischen Herangehensweisen: Vertreten sind dabei Fotografie, Grafik und Malerei, Installation und Skulptur. Die Besucher der Ausstellung werden die Möglichkeit haben, nicht nur innovative junge Künstler kennenzulernen, sondern in der Vielfalt der Kunstwerke auch Einblicke in eine spannende und nach wie vor hochaktuelle Thematik zu gewinnen.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Das junge Kuratoren-Team Simone Kraft und Bonaventure S. B. Ndikung haben nicht nur mit jungen und innovativen Künstlern aus aller Welt zusammengearbeitet, sondern sie verkörpern mit ihren Lebensläufen, die sie zwecks Studiums und Arbeit an mehrere Orte auf der Welt geführt haben, selbst auch die Nomadic Settlers <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">–</span> Settled Nomads.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The "Art in Times of War" display, which opened last Friday, shows 46 original aquatint prints from Goya&#8217;s "The Disasters of Wars" collection which depicts the horrors that occurred as Spain tried to repel the Napoleon Bonaparte-led French invasion from 1808 to 1814.</font></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The works are singularly disturbing and macabre, conveying the artist&#8217;s outrage at the death and destruction of war.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">Visitors can feel the absurdity of violence and the savagery of men at war through prints such as the "With or Without Reason," "Why?" or "One Cannot Look at This."</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The pictures were brought to Vietnam by German-American Fine Art Ph.D. and collector Hans Guggenheim, who became an ardent fan of Goya after being introduced to the Spanish artistby his literature professor in 1950.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">Guggenheim has spent a lot of time and money collecting Goya&#8217;s works, especially "The Disasters of War."</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">He said he wanted to display the pictures in Vietnam to raise awareness of the consequences of war which are still present in the country.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">Guggenheim said he would give 34 prints to the Vietnam Fine Art Museum after the exhibition finishes.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">When asked why he didn&#8217;t keep the precious pictures for himself instead of displaying them and giving them away, Guggenheim said a work of art must connect people and create a sense of faith, hope and even fear. Only by being shown to public could the artwork fulfill that purpose, he said.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The doctor said he hoped young Vietnamese artists could learn something about the value of human beings through the prints.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746- 1828) is considered the first of the modern artists.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">He was a court painter for the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Edouard Manet and Pablo Picasso.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">One of Goya&#8217;s best known paintings is the oil on canvas "The Nude Maya" painted in around 1799.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The works in "The Disasters of War" collection were made between 1810 and 1820. It is considered one of the most powerful anti-violence messages thanks to the realistic and provocative depiction of terror and war&#8217;s consequences.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The event is co-organized by the US Embassy, the Spanish Embassy and the Indochina Art Partnership.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The works are on display until November 11 at the Vietnam Fine Art Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ba Dinh District.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">The Goethe Institute, located at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, will also host a talk today by Hans Guggenheim, who will discuss the connection between Goya and German legendary author Johann Wolfgang Goethe.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><img src="http://www.thanhniennews.com/images/newsimages/goya-280-08.jpg"/></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="2">Reported by Y Nguyen</font></span></i></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align:center;">3, rue Nicolet<br />
75018 Paris<br />
sept 28th - oct 5th 2008<br />
open every day 13h00 - 19h00</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Bianca Cassidy</strong>, the owner of the Gallery and the other part of <strong>Coco Rosie</strong>, brings her 'want for a better world' together with the artists <a title="hanayo" href="http://www.hanayo.com/gallery"><strong>Hanayo</strong></a> (Japan), <a title="larrys" href="http://www.larrys.eu/"><strong>Larrys</strong></a> (Canada), <strong>Aude Levere</strong> (France), <strong>Mathieu Malouf</strong> (Canada) / <strong>Heji Shin</strong> (South Korea), <strong>Maxwell Simmer</strong> (Canada), <strong>Brent Wadden</strong> (Canada), <strong>Nine Yamamoto - Masson</strong> (France/Japan) and <strong>Michael Young</strong> (Canada) into the espace in the 18th.<br />
All of the artists are based in Berlin, but born somewhere else. Nomads, who met in Berlin's deserted spaces and places, which carry the history of separation and reunification since 81 years now. With humbleness and joy you get invite to join an psychedelic, soulful exhibition. The artists are search for the unknown land and dimensions. Poetry written with textiles, films, photographs, drawings, installations and paintings.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>[gallery]</strong></p>
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<p>Where are the wolves, that were wondering through the forests? It is a smell that enters you. No fatal statements. It is more pleasure to play with the others and look out for them. A world, that is longing for more, than for personal profiling. A let-free instinct : words don't help any better, if you are trying to speak. A family that is alive : embracing the other, letting them be the way they are, nourishing them to create from the inside, to let them forget themselves for a moment about their own existence and break the invisible wall.</p>
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<link>http://haysie1.wordpress.com/?p=97</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Had a good chat with L about advice for preparation for the exhibition. I&#8217;d wanted help with s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Had a good chat with L about advice for preparation for the exhibition. I'd wanted help with sizes, mounting etc but in the end, the discussion was much more about the initial stages of getting the right pictures to present.</p>
<p>Very helpful advice and suggestions, mainly that I need to accept I've not the time to devote to getting the maximum out of film (35mm or medium format) in time for January. There are darkroom and enlarging facilities I can access but I've a lot to learn. So I'm left with certain choices:</p>
<p>digital - and my 40D should be ample for the size I'm likely to go to</p>
<p>film - processed and printed by a professional company</p>
<p>film scanned and digitally post-processed - and this will probably give me the least quality unless I use some high-end scanner, or have them scanned for me by an external company</p>
<p>All really useful but quite depressing when I was hoping to get the kinds of quality and tonal range I see in film but am having trouble reproducing. However, I can still play with the film types to get something more like I want, e.g. using higher contrast b&#38;w film. I have to accept that I will have much less control over what I get though, unlike digital where I can tweak things much more simply, at least until I can get time to go play in the darkroom.</p>
<p>Time to regroup, rethink and take some pictures. I can then go back for advice, help and assistance on the next stage.</p>
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<link>http://thephotogram.wordpress.com/?p=18</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>derkosmonaut</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Horn, location: Continental Studio Trisorio Rom, date: 03.11.08 - 22.11.08 / current exhibit]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rebecca Horn, location: Continental Studio Trisorio Rom, date: 03.11.08 - 22.11.08 / current exhibitions at: Continental Studio Trisorio Rom 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Rebecca Horn Continental Studio Trisorio Rom <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Rebecca Horn by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer and Laura May. More information about <a href="http://www.text-blog.net/rebecca-horn/">Rebecca Horn</a> Exhibition Continental Studio Trisorio Rom.<br />
Heidi Klum </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/HEIDI-KLUM-UELTZHOEFFER.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/heidi-klum-foto.jpg" alt="Heidi Klum" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<link>http://midac2.wordpress.com/?p=149</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[its been an while]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[its this week yay for me!

tho im still scared that i might not be in it! strange fear but its stope]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>its this week yay for me!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepper83/2917524743/" title="design even promo stuff 003 by boypepper83, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/2917524743_9ff55ab786_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="design even promo stuff 003" /></a></p>
<p>tho im still scared that i might not be in it! strange fear but its stoped me telling people about it till i see it my self</p>
<p>thought of an name for an lil project : Norsk - Engelsk, Norsk - Engelsk.  its the collaborative drawings of my self James and that of my illustration twin <a href="http://www.christopherowe.com/">Christopher </a>(none identical) has sent me a drawing in the post and i will draw on it and post it back over to Norway so on and so forth....</p>
<p>Hopefully we will be hearing alot more about this in the coming months, not official web site yet but will be soon i hope. but some thing might of pop in my flickr acct (il be photographicing <a href="http://www.christopherowe.com/">Christopher </a>work and he mine i think)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pepper83/2918386220/" title="Norsk - Engelsk, Norsk - Engelsk. 002 by boypepper83, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2918386220_cb59813f40.jpg" width="334" height="500" alt="Norsk - Engelsk, Norsk - Engelsk. 002" /></a><br />
co001</p>
<p>Christopher on the web<br />
<a href="http://www.christopherowe.com/"><br />
http://www.christopherowe.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.gallerymortsa.info">http://www.gallerymortsa.info</a><br />
<a href="http://christopherowe.wordpress.com/">http://christopherowe.wordpress.com/</a></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It is the name of an exhibition you could visit at the Wellness Warehouse on Kloof Street in the cit]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dirk Stewen]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - artist: Dirk Stewen, location: CCA Wattis San Francisco, date: 04.11.08 - 29.11.08 / cu]]></description>
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<p>New entries: actual 0</p>
<p>Cameron Diaz / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT).<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<link>http://textportrait.wordpress.com/?p=200</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
<guid>http://textportrait.mr.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/rebecca-horn/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - artist: Rebecca Horn, location: Continental Studio Trisorio Rom, date: 03.11.08 - 22.11]]></description>
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<p>New entries: actual 0</p>
<p>Heidi Klum / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/HEIDI-KLUM-UELTZHOEFFER.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/heidi-klum-foto.jpg" alt="Heidi Klum" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<link>http://textportrait.wordpress.com/?p=198</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - location: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, date: 04.11.08 - 24.02.08 / current exhibitions]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION - location: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, date: 04.11.08 - 24.02.08 / current exhibitions at: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht. More information about <a href="http://www.kunst-kultur-forum.de/blog/maastricht-bonnefantenmuseum/">Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht</a> Exhibitions at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Netherlands.</p>
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<p>Barack Obama / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/BARACK-OBAMA-UELTZHOEFFER.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/barack-obama-foto.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - artist: Stefan Brüggemann, location: Frac Bourgogne Dijon, date: 11.10.08 - 10.01.08 /]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION - artist: Stefan Brüggemann, location: Frac Bourgogne Dijon, date: 11.10.08 - 10.01.08 / current exhibitions at: Frac Bourgogne Dijon 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Stefan Brüggemann Frac Bourgogne Dijon <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Stefan Brüggemann by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer and Laura May. More information about <a href="http://www.kunst-ausstellung.org/2008/10/ausstellung-stefan-bruggemann/">Stefan Brüggemann</a> Exhibition Frac Bourgogne Dijon.</p>
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<p>Andy Warhol / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/andy-warhol.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/andy-warhol.jpg" alt="Andy Warhol" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fergus Martin]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - artist: Fergus Martin, location: City Gallery Dublin, date: 11.10.08 - 11.01.08 / curre]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION - artist: Fergus Martin, location: City Gallery Dublin, date: 11.10.08 - 11.01.08 / current exhibitions at: City Gallery Dublin 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Fergus Martin City Gallery Dublin <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Fergus Martin by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer and Laura May. More information about <a href="http://www.artopsent.com/exhibition-fergus-martin/">Fergus Martin</a> Exhibition City Gallery Dublin.</p>
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<p>Barack Obama / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/BARACK-OBAMA-UELTZHOEFFER.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/barack-obama-foto.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
<guid>http://textportrait.mr.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/goethe-institut-helsinki-exhibitions/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - location: Goethe-Institut Helsinki, date: 05.11.08 - 18.12.08 / current exhibitions at:]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION - location: Goethe-Institut Helsinki, date: 05.11.08 - 18.12.08 / current exhibitions at: Goethe-Institut Helsinki 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Goethe-Institut Helsinki <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Goethe-Institut Helsinki. More information about <a href="http://www.text-blog.net/goethe-institut-helsinki/">Goethe-Institut Helsinki</a> Exhibitions at Goethe-Institut Helsinki, Finland.</p>
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<p>Barack Obama / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Hany Armanious]]></title>
<link>http://textportrait.wordpress.com/?p=190</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
<guid>http://textportrait.mr.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/hany-armanious/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - artist: Hany Armanious, location: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, date: 04.11.08 - 2]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION - artist: Hany Armanious, location: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, date: 04.11.08 - 23.11.08 / current exhibitions at: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Hany Armanious Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Hany Armanious by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer and Laura May. More information about <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/blog/hany-armanious-text/">Hany Armanious</a> Exhibition Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA.</p>
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<p>Barack Obama / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/BARACK-OBAMA-UELTZHOEFFER.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/barack-obama-foto.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<link>http://gracefultaylor.wordpress.com/?p=66</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gracefultaylor</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gracefultaylor.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/art-deco/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ART DECO
Hope you made it to Art Deco - the best exhibition I&#8217;ve seen this year.
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<p><span style="color:#808080;">Hope you made it to Art Deco - the best exhibition I've seen this year.<br />
A</span><span style="color:#808080;">n amazing collection - organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. <br />
Thanks VA! <span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/artdeco/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#808080;">http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/artdeco/</span></a></span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Studio Ito]]></title>
<link>http://passatellicrudiallafermatadel2.wordpress.com/?p=202</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Uomo Busta</dc:creator>
<guid>http://passatellicrudiallafermatadel2.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/studio-ito/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Svoltosi giusto il weekend scorso, ArteLibro, ci ha dato la possibilità di conoscere due designer o]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Svoltosi giusto il weekend scorso, <a href="http://www.artelibro.it/" target="_blank">ArteLibro</a>, ci ha dato la possibilità di conoscere due designer originariamente giapponesi, ma, come loro stessi si definiscono, italiani d'adozione: sono <strong>Setsu</strong> e <strong>Shinobu Ito</strong>.<br />
Lasciamo perder il fatto che questo marito e moglie parlino un italiano decisamente migliore del mio... beh, più il marito a pensarci bene... per convincere Shinobu a proferir parola non sarebbero bastati i pompieri.<br />
Durante l'insolitamente amichevole conferenza (proprio niente a che veder con le archistar nostrane che, a momenti, si presentan con guardia del corpo) Setsu ha illustrato una breve carrellata dei loro lavori riassunti nelle 5 categorie (che ovviamente non mi son trascritto da bravo co#@*%ne) che scandiscono anche la nuovissima monografia, <em>East-West Designer</em>, a loro dedicata... così nuova che manco la trovo su internet!<br />
La loro progettazione li porta ad aver grande attenzione per la Natura (e per la forza ordinatrice che la sottende... il ritmo della Natura va sempre introdotto nel progetto, anche solo come forma) ed<br />
il contesto (inteso come concentrarsi su ciò che succede attorno all’oggetto, sul rapporto reciproco che si stabilisce tra uomo ed oggetto e non solo su di quest'ultimo).<br />
Grande varietà sia tipologica, sia formale dei loro progetti è un altro aspetto che li rende particolamente interessanti... se volete dare una sbirciata seguite il link!</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/milan06/img/sawaya/08.jpg" alt="" width="496" /><br />
(<a href="http://www.studioito.com/" target="_blank">Link</a>)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ok here is where I am up to with this littlee...]]></title>
<link>http://donnasteelartist.wordpress.com/?p=402</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>donnasteel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://donnasteelartist.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/ok-here-is-where-i-am-up-to-with-this-littlee/</guid>
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This wee darling is along the same lines as my last &#8220;Wetland]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Still a work in progress ...</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">This wee darling is along the same lines as my last "Wetlands" artwork...  I really like to create artworks from my own photography... I feel it really brings a personal and passionate feel to my artworks.... a wee while agoe I went out and took a heap of photos , some Black and White....  of the beach and surrounding wetlands ... this artwork is based on one of those black and white photos.....</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">More progress shots soon .... :)</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">cheers D ;)</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://moskvitchinhavana.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/whats-going-on/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So, then days to go until opening night, and things are beginning to come together in the studio.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, then days to go until opening night, and things are beginning to come together in the studio.</p>
<p>Two of the exhibiting artists have been working for the past while in a studio at Telliskivi. Given the subject matter of the exhibition, the location couldn't really be more ideal. The top end of Telliskivi is a crossroads, with railway sidings and tram lines dividing the tourist crowds of the Old Town from the pleasant wooden houses, and industrial archaeology, of the Kalamaja district.</p>
[caption id="attachment_23" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="From Our Studio Window"]<a href="http://moskvitchinhavana.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/img_2172.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-23" title="img_2172" src="http://moskvitchinhavana.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/img_2172.jpg?w=300" alt="From Our Studio Window" width="300" height="225" /></a>[/caption]
<p>The studio is part of a huge former Soviet factory and living space. Formerly each floor of these large-ish tower blocks was filled with light engineering and food processing enterprises, as well as flats for the workers who staffed them. Now, in a rather desolate state, the floors in the more serviceable buildings still serve as flats or small businesses; in two of the more crumbling blocks, the cold, drafty spaces form perfect studios for an ever changing cast of aspirant hard rockers, drum classes, and artists. The only permanent residents seem to be a large family of fierce and human-wary black-and-white cats.</p>
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[caption id="attachment_24" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Telliskivi Studios"]<a href="http://moskvitchinhavana.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/img_2179.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-24" title="img_2179" src="http://moskvitchinhavana.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/img_2179.jpg?w=300" alt="Telliskivi Studios" width="300" height="225" /></a>[/caption]
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<p>Despite some not very good versions of <em>Born to Run</em> etc. being frequently audible from neighbouring spaces, the studio itself is pretty good for making art; well lit throughout the day and north-west facing. Most of the Soviet debris has been cleared away ( a huge windowless room upstairs is stacked high with cheap 1980s office furniture, broken brown carpet tiles and old sofas). </p>
<p>In this space two of the artists who are exhibiting have been pulling together work for the show; the others will be bringing their stuff with them, shortly, for installation week next week.</p>
[caption id="attachment_25" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Casey Campbell working on her painting"]<a href="http://moskvitchinhavana.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/img_2174.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-25" title="img_2174" src="http://moskvitchinhavana.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/img_2174.jpg?w=300" alt="Casey Campbell working on her painting &#34;Aia 10 Uheksa Viis&#34;" width="300" height="225" /></a>[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_32" align="alignright" width="300" caption="David Anderson and his pinball machine"]<a href="http://moskvitchinhavana.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/img_2177.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-32" title="img_2177" src="http://moskvitchinhavana.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/img_2177.jpg?w=300" alt="David Anderson and his pinball machine" width="300" height="225" /></a>[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_34" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Disused Bridge over main courtyard, Telliskivi"]<a href="http://moskvitchinhavana.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/img_2180.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-34" title="img_2180" src="http://moskvitchinhavana.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/img_2180.jpg?w=300" alt="Disused Bridge over main courtyard, Telliskivi" width="300" height="225" /></a>[/caption]
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<title><![CDATA[Tomoko Sawada Exhibition at Colette]]></title>
<link>http://mercilessangel.wordpress.com/?p=65</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hasejun1985</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mercilessangel.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/tomoko-sawada-exhibition-at-colette/</guid>
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Tomoko Sawada is a renowned contemporary photographer in Tokyo art world. Her upcoming show at &gt;]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.e-sawa.com/" target="_blank">Tomoko Sawada</a> is a renowned contemporary photographer in Tokyo art world. Her upcoming show at <a href="http://www.colette.fr" target="_blank">&#62;Colette</a> in November will be focusing on the cute looks in Japan, that means Lolita and Harajuku style!</p>
<p><em>Tomoko Sawada exhibition, November 3rd-29th. The conceptual artist worked on describing Japanese teenagers' fashion and Tokyo's famous "Harajuku Style" in taking pictures of herself dressed "Kawaii" and typically Japanese.</p>
<p>During Paris-Photo 2008, join Aperture and colette, next November 14th for a book signing of photographers Takashi Homma for his "Tokyo", Eikoh Hosoe for "Barakei", Michal Chelbin for "Strangely Familiar: Acrobats, Athletes, and Other Traveling Troupes", Erwin Olaf for his eponymous "Erwin Olaf" and Michael Wolf for "The Transparent City". </em></p>
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<link>http://textportrait.wordpress.com/?p=188</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maren Oppermann</dc:creator>
<guid>http://textportrait.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/mark-rothko-3/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION - artist: Mark Rothko, location: Kunsthalle Hamburg, date: 16.05.08 - 03.08.08 / current ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION - artist: Mark Rothko, location: Kunsthalle Hamburg, date: 16.05.08 - 03.08.08 / current exhibitions at: Kunsthalle Hamburg 2008. Artistinformation and biography-text from: Mark Rothko Kunsthalle Hamburg <!--more--> CATEGORY: art, modern art, projects: <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/TEXTPORTRAITS.html">TEXTPORTRAITS</a> Mark Rothko by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer and Laura May. More information about <a href="http://www.kunst-ausstellung.org/2008/05/ausstellung-mark-rothko/">Mark Rothko</a> Exhibition Kunsthalle Hamburg.</p>
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<p>Barack Obama / Portrait (TEXTPORTRAIT). </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/BARACK-OBAMA-UELTZHOEFFER.html"><img src="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/bilder/barack-obama-foto.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="473" height="534" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de">textportraits by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer</a>.</a></p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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 Caspar David Friedrich  and the German romantic landscape
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<p><big> Caspar David Friedrich  and the German romantic landscape<br />
Exhibition &#62;  18 January 2009</big><br />
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<span style="font-size:small;color:#ffcc99;">The Hermitage Amsterdam is to end its stay on Nieuwe Herengracht with a remarkable finale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size:small;color:#ffcc99;">For the first time ever all the works by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) from the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg will be loaned for a special exhibition about this renowned German artist curated by guest curator Prof. Henk van Os.</span><br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="color:#666699;"><big>Caspar David Friedrich</big></span><br />
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840),<br />
<em>On a Sailing Ship</em>, 1818-1820,<br />
Oil on canvas, 71 x 56<br />
© State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg<br />
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Friedrich’s paintings and drawings are at the centre of the exhibition, but they are surrounded by works by contemporaries, predecessors and followers. They all present aspects of the Romantic landscape and illustrate the specialties between these painters, with Friedrich at the fore, and Tsar Nicholas I and his family.</p>
<p>Particularly noteworthy are the watercolours by Carl Fohr, which have not been shown or published before. They were discovered during the preparations for this exhibition, the tenth and last to be held in the Neerlandia building. Afterwards the Hermitage Amsterdam will move to the adjacent Amstelhof and become ten times as big. This second phase will open before the summer of 2009. The present premises will be converted into the Hermitage for Children.</p>
<p>Until about 1960 for most art lovers in the Netherlands Friedrich’s paintings represented a suspect world associated with a fatal nationalism fuelled by notions about "Blut und Boden". Much has changed since then. Friedrich has been ‘in’ for years. For many he has become a cult figure. This has to do with the fact that in recent decades the experience of nature expressed in his paintings has been shared by many. His recent retrospective in Germany was a resounding success.</p>
<p>Caspar David Friedrich and his friend Philipp Otto Runge unwittingly brought about a renewal of art. The landscapes by the deeply devout Protestant Friedrich are full of religious symbolism alluding to a divine presence in the landscape.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color:#666699;">Caspar David Friedrich</span><br />
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840),<br />
<em>Sunset (brothers)</em>, ca. 1835,<br />
Oil on canvas, 26 x 31<br />
© State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg<br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="color:#666699;">Caspar David Friedrich</span><br />
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840),<br />
<em>Morning in the Mountains</em>, 1821-1823,<br />
Oil on canvas, 135 x 170<br />
© State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg<br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="color:#666699;">Caspar David Friedrich</span><br />
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Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840),<br />
<em>The Rock Gates in Neurathen</em>, ca. 1837,<br />
Watercolor over a pencil sketch, 27,9 x 24,5<br />
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His paintings are now much loved but rare. The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg has the largest collection of works by Friedrich outside Germany. The museum will be loaning all of them for the first time: nine paintings and six drawings.</p>
<p>The idea of holding an exhibition in Amsterdam of all Friedrich’s works from the Hermitage was prompted in part by the fact that the history of their acquisition is so interesting. Moreover, they form a representative group and include many of his finest paintings and drawings, marking very different moments in Friedrich’s oeuvre. Thanks to this diversity, they give a wide-ranging picture of the painter’s imaginative world, and make it possible to get to know the artist Caspar David Friedrich.</p>
<p>When guest curator (and former director of the Rijksmuseum) Henk van Os looked more closely at the Hermitage’s collection of German paintings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for this exhibition, it became clear that the prominent position of artists from the German-speaking countries in St Petersburg around 1800 had resulted in there being a surprisingly rich collection of German paintings from that period in the storerooms. It included important paintings and drawings by landscapists who are hardly if at all known in the Netherlands.<br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="color:#666699;">Jacob Philipp Hackert</span><br />
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Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737-1780),<br />
<em>Maecenas’ Villa at Tivoli</em>, 1783,<br />
Oil on canvas, 121 x 169<br />
© State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg<br />
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<blockquote><p><span style="color:#666699;">Ludwig Knaus</span><br />
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Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910),<br />
<em>Girl in a field</em>, 1857,<br />
Oil on canvas, 50 x 61<br />
© State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg<br />
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As a result of this discovery, the idea was born of devoting an exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam to showing what a revolution Friedrich had brought about in German landscape painting. More traditional painters such as Hackert, Reinhart and Mechau, contemporaries like the unknown young artists Carl Fohr (1795-1817) and Carl von Kügelgen (1772-1832), and followers such as Hagens, Carus and Von Klenze place Friedrich in a historical context. It is only when his works are juxtaposed with traditional landscapes that it becomes clear why at the time so many critics could not or would not understand Friedrich’s work. It is unique, and that is all the more evident when his paintings are shown in the context of work by other artists.</p>
<p>‘For our art critics our German sun, moon, lakes and rivers are not enough. If the aim is elevated art and beauty, it must all be Italian.’ With these words the painter again makes it clear that the historical importance of his art lies not only in how he depicts nature, but also in the fact that he decided not to journey to Italy to learn about art, but found inspiration in the landscapes of his surroundings: Rügen, Rostock, the country around Dresden and the Giant Mountains.<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Takashi Murakami in Frankfurt]]></title>
<link>http://huntingclub.wordpress.com/?p=364</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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William: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/Main is hosting a Takashi Murakami exhibition f]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>William:</em></strong> MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt/Main is hosting a Takashi Murakami exhibition from September 27, 2008 - January 4, 2009. MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main is the first platform for the © MURAKAMI exhibition in Europe. In case you live in or near Frankfurt you should take the chance to see Murakami's influential work.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Alexander Esters]]></title>
<link>http://textportrait.wordpress.com/?p=186</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[VAN HORN Düsseldorf. Actual artist: Alexander Esters - &#8220;IN DER GRAUEN ZELLE&#8221; - Exhibiti]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>VAN HORN Düsseldorf. Actual artist: Alexander Esters - "IN DER GRAUEN ZELLE" - Exhibition dates are 12.09.08 - 31.10.08. Get more information about Alexander Esters - Museum or Gallery informations: Düsseldorf, VAN HORN <!--more-->by Biography - Textportrait from Alexander Esters by <a href="http://www.ueltzhoeffer.de/blog">Ralph Ueltzhoeffer Alexander Esters</a>. Articles and texts actual:</p>
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