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Street poetry: Betreten verboten (Berlin)
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Street poetry: Sehen ist alles (Berlin)
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panorama of neon tubes. Before the passage into the former cloister building, the smoke machine by Pipilotti Rist generates beautiful, short-lived air bubbles. Pepi Maier’s spiral-shaped copper-tube ice sculpture floats in the attic of the Ursulinenhof, iced over by the moisture of the air and with the help of a cooling machine. Following a winding entry into the north tower, visitors finally reach the large attic of the Ursuline church. There Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima provide an ethereal blue hour with a hydrau ulic neon wave. “Mira, el mejor lugar , una prima mía me ha hecho padrino de su hijo; acaba de nacerle un pequeñuelo de piel blanca con manchas pardas, y quiere que yo lo lleve a la pila bautismal E perché‚ non litigassero fra di loro, li condusse davanti al castello, soffiando fece volare in aria tre piume e disse: -Dovete seguire il loro volo-. Una piuma volò verso oriente, l’altra verso occidente, mentre la terza se ne volò diritto e non arrivò molto lontano, ma cadde a terra ben presto. Così un fratello andò a destra, l’altro se ne andò a sinistra; il Grullo invece fu deriso perché‚ dovette fermarsi là dov’era caduta la terza piuma. Il Grullo si mise a sedere tutto
J. A. Woolf: Making memories (05)
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Joep Eijkens: Brief Encounters (02)
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Ai Weiwei: Interlacing
Until: 15th Jan. 2012
Kunsthaus Graz – Lendkai 1 – 8020 – Graz
The first large-scale exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s photographic and video work—taken over from the Fotomuseum Winterthur—puts the spotlight on Ai Weiwei the communicator and indefatigable remembrancer, the documenting, analysing, interlacing and multichannel-communicating artist. Even in his New York period (1983–1993), Ai Weiwei took photographs, but especially since his return to Beijing, he has tirelessly documented everyday realities of the urban environment and society in China, and discussed them in blogs and twitters. The photographs of the radical changes to the urban built fabric, the search for earthquake victims, and the destruction of his Shanghai studio are presented along with art-photographic projects, the documenta Fairytale project, the countless blog and mobile-phone photographs. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive book of material and archives (published by Steidl, Göttingen).
Ai Weiwei is a generalistic, conceptual, socio-critical artist, dedicated to friction with and the design of realities. As an architect, conceptual artist, sculptor, photographer, blogger, Twitterer and interview artist and political activist, he is a seismograph for current themes and social problems: a great multiplicator and communicator, who leads a life for art and art as life.
Ai Weiwei was born in 1957, the son of poet Ai Qing. After studying at the Beijing Film Academy, in 1978 he and others founded The Stars artist collective, which rebelled against Socialistic Realism and came out in favour of artistic individuality and experimenting in art. In 1981, Ai Weiwei went to the USA, and in 1983 to New York, where he studied under painter Sean Scully at the Parsons School of Design. In New York, he discovered artists such as Allen Ginsberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol and above all Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp was important to him because he saw art as a part of life. The result was his first ready-mades and thousands of photographs documenting his stay and those of his Chinese artist friends in New York. When his father fell ill, Ai Weiwei returned to Beijing in 1993. In 1997, he co-founded the China Art Archives and Warehouse (CAAW) and began to take an interest in architecture. In 1999, he opened a studio of his own in Caochangdi, and in 2003 founded the FAKE Design architecture studio. The same year, he was substantially involved with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron in the construction of the Olympic Stadium, the so-called Bird’s Nest, which after its completion became the new emblem of Beijing. In 2007, at his prompting, 1001 Chinese travelled to Kassel for documenta 12 (Fairytale). In 2010, he astonished the world with his large, formally Minimalist-arranged carpet at the Tate Modern, made of millions of sunflower seeds made of hand-painted porcelain.
At all times, every society in this world, in the past, present and future, needs singular, outstanding figures such as Ai Weiwei in order to remain alert and be shaken into wakefulness, to recognise its own rigidity and to avoid its own tunnel vision. We are delighted that this great thinker, designer and warrior was released from arrest on 22nd June 2011.
The exhibition was organised by the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Curator: Urs Stahel. From 21st Feb. to 29th April 2012, it will be on show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
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De beste kunsten zijn altijd het moeilijkst (Rotterdam)
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Amy Winehouse new release
Lioness, Hidden Treasures
Just released: a 12 track collection of previously unreleased tracks of Amy Winehouse, alternate versions of existing classics as well as a couple of brand new Amy compositions. It has been compiled by long-time musical partners Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson in close association with Amy’s family, management and record label Island Records. “Lioness : Hidden Treasures” proves a fitting tribute to the artist, the talent and the woman and serves as a reminder of Amy’s extraordinary powers as a songwriter, a singer and an interpreter of classics.
Tracklisting:
1. Our Day Will Come
2. Between The Cheats
3. Tears Dry (Original Version)
4. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (2011)
5. Like Smoke Feat. Nas
6. Valerie (’68 Version)
7. Girl From Ipanema
8. Half Time
9. Wake Up Alone (Original Recording)
10. Best Friends, Right?
11. Body And Soul With Tony Bennett
12. A Song For You
Amy Winehouse: Lioness Hidden Treasures album comes with an exclusive poster. £1 of every sale in UK/Eire goes to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, set up in Amy’s memory to support charitable activities that can provide help, support or care for young people, especially those who are in need by reason of ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or addiction.
Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011)
Amy Winehouse released her critically acclaimed debut album, Frank, in 2003, an album that introduced a truly singular talent and earned. the then 20 year-old a nomination for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. It was however in 2006, with the release of the universally lauded Back to Black, that Amy became widely recognised, by the critics and public alike, as arguably the greatest British artist to emerge in generations. Back To Black received an astonishing six Grammy Award nominations winning five, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night. Amy became the first British female to win five Grammys, including three of the “Big Four”: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
On 14 February 2007, she won a BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist and was also nominated for Best British Album. She won the Ivor Novello Award three times, one in 2004 for Best Contemporary Song (musically and lyrically) for “Stronger Than Me”, one in 2007 for Best Contemporary Song for “Rehab”, and one in 2008 for Best Song Musically and Lyrically for “Love Is a Losing Game”, among other distinctions. In August 2011 her album Back to Black became the UK’s best selling album of the 21st century.
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Street poetry: Zero stress group (Antwerpen)
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Street poetry: Eén van de pinguïns loopt mank
(Safaripark Beekse Bergen Hilvarenbeek)
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Dopo un anno, il re prese di nuovo moglie: una donna bella, ma orgogliosa; non poteva tollerare che qualcuno la superasse in bellezza. Possedeva uno specchio e, quando vi si specchiava, diceva:-Specchio fatato, in questo castello, hai forse visto aspetto più bello?-E lo specchio rispondeva:-E’ il tuo, Regina, di tutte il più bello!-Ed ella era contenta, perché‚ sapeva che lo specchio diceva la verità. Ma Biancaneve cresceva, diventando sempre più bella e, quand’ebbe sette anni, era Revolution zum Handeln zu gelangen. Die Herausgeberinnen haben 15 Autorinnen aus Asien, Afrika, Europa, Australien, Ozeanien sowie den beiden Amerikas gebeten, die Zukunft aus einer kosmopolitischen Sicht zu entwerfen und damit die Lebenskunst nach Platon und Aristoteles-..
J.A. Woolf: Making memories (04)
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Die andere Seite des Mondes
Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde
K20 Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf
bis 15.01.2012
Im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung “Die andere Seite des Mondes” stehen acht Künstlerinnen, die in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren maßgeblich an den ästhetischen Neuerungen in Europa beteiligt waren. Durch ihr hohes künstlerisches Niveau, ihre zielstrebige Kontaktsuche […]
Kuratorin: Dr. Susanne Meyer-Büser
Hannah Höch, Siebenmeilenstiefel, um 1934, Photomontage, 22,9 x 32,29 cm, Hamburger Kunsthalle. Foto: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011, Foto: Christoph Irrgang. © Kunstsammlung NRW
Im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung Die andere Seite des Mondes stehen acht Künstlerinnen, die in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren maßgeblich an den ästhetischen Neuerungen in Europa beteiligt waren. Durch ihr hohes künstlerisches Niveau, ihre zielstrebige Kontaktsuche und unbedingtes Engagement vernetzten sie sich stets im Zentrum der Avantgarde. Es sind Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Sonia Delaunay, Florence Henri, Hannah Höch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp und die weniger bekannten Katarzyna Kobro und Germaine Dulac, deren Leben und Werke in der Ausstellung erstmals in dieser Zusammenstellung entdeckt werden können. Die Gesamtspanne der künstlerischen Arbeiten umfasst unterschiedlichste ästhetische Richtungen vom Dadaismus über den Konstruktivismus bis hin zum Surrealismus. Ebenso vielfältig sind die künstlerischen Mittel, die Malerei, Fotografie, Collage, Film und Skulptur umfassen.
Die andere Seite des Mondes wendet sich den weiblichen Pionieren der Avantgarde zu: Künstlerinnen, die frühzeitig an den Bewegungen ihrer Zeit teilgenommen und die zur Begründung und Verbreitung neuer Stilrichtungen beigetragen haben. Beispielhaft für diese Riege der Pionierinnen steht Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943).
Zum Kreis dieser einflussreichen und kommunikativen Künstlerinnen zählen ebenso Hannah Höch (1889-1978), die mit ihren Collagen zu den Begründern des Berliner Dadaismus gehörte, sowie Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979). Sie bereitet in Paris den Weg zur reinen Malerei und revolutioniert die Modeindustrie mit einem eigenen Label.
Fast alle der vorgestellten Künstlerinnen waren zeitweise eng miteinander befreundet, andere kannten sich indirekt durch ihre Werke. Die Wege, Querverbindungen, wechselnden Freundschaften und temporären Paarbildungen – kurz: die europaweiten Netzwerke dieser Künstlerinnen – sollen in den rund 220 Werken der Ausstellung sichtbar und erfahrbar werden.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition à forme „U“ (Komposition mit U-Form), 1918, Collage, Aquarell und Gouache, 24,8 x 25,8 cm, Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V., Remagen-Rolandswerth. Foto: © PRO LITTERIS, Zürich / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011 © Kunstsammlung NRW
Die Ausstellung ist gemacht in Kooperation mit dem Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Dänemark. Es gibt ein Katalog im DuMont-Verlag.
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Joep Eijkens: Brief Encounters (01)
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