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Late, Late, so Late
Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill!
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still.
Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.
No light had we: for that we do repent;
And learning this, the bridegroom will relent.
Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.
No light: so late! and dark and chill the night!
O, let us in, that we may find the light!
Too late, too late: ye cannot enter now.
Have we not heard the bridegroom is so sweet?
O, let us in, tho’ late, to kiss his feet!
No, no, too late! ye cannot enter now.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)
Late, Late, so Late
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Ana Navas, geboren in 1984 in Quito, Ecuador, en opgegroeid in Venezuela, is een multidisciplinair kunstenaar.
Haar werk richt zich op thema’s als assimilatie en toe-eigening, met de nadruk op de oorsprong van kunst- en designobjecten en de relatie tussen hoge en populaire cultuur.
‘Dear awkwardness’ is een persoonlijke brief waarin ze haar dank uitspreekt voor het concept van awkwardness. Ze erkent de negatieve invloed ervan op sociale situaties, maar omarmt ook de positieve invloed ervan en integreert het in het proces van het maken van haar kunst.
De bij PARK getoonde glaswerken zijn onlangs gemaakt bij MAKE in Eindhoven en laten deze ‘awkward mentaliteit’ zien.
DEAR AWKWARDNESS
tentoonstelling Ana Navas
02.03 – 07.04 2024
PARK TILBURG
PARK
Platform for Visual Arts
Wilhelminapark 53
5041 ED Tilburg
park(at)park013.nl
Facebook.com/Park013
https://www.instagram.com/park_tilburg/
Tijdens tentoonstellingen geopend:
vrijdag 13.00 – 17.00 uur
zaterdag 13.00 – 17.00 uur
zondag 13.00 – 17.00 uur
Toegang is gratis
PARK ligt op 10 minuten loopafstand van het Centraal Station Tilburg in de nabijheid van De Pont museum. Er is beperkt parkeergelegenheid voor de deur. Aan het Wilhelminapark geldt betaald parkeren van maandag t/m vrijdag tussen 9.00 en 15.00 uur.
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A Wintry Sonnet
A robin said: The Spring will never come,
And I shall never care to build again.
A Rosebush said: These frosts are wearisome,
My sap will never stir for sun or rain.
The half Moon said: These nights are fogged and slow,
I neither care to wax nor care to wane.
The Ocean said: I thirst from long ago,
Because earth’s rivers cannot fill the main.
When springtime came, red Robin built a nest,
And trilled a lover’s song in sheer delight.
Gray hoarfrost vanished, and the Rose with might
Clothed her in leaves and buds of crimson core.
The dim Moon brightened. Ocean sunned his crest,
Dimpled his blue, – yet thirsted evermore.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830 – 1894)
A Wintry Sonnet
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Les oies sauvages
Tout est muet, l’oiseau ne jette plus ses cris.
La morne plaine est blanche au loin sous le ciel gris.
Seuls, les grands corbeaux noirs, qui vont cherchant leurs proies,
Fouillent du bec la neige et tachent sa pâleur.
Voilà qu’à l’horizon s’élève une clameur ;
Elle approche, elle vient, c’est la tribu des oies.
Ainsi qu’un trait lancé, toutes, le cou tendu,
Allant toujours plus vite, en leur vol éperdu,
Passent, fouettant le vent de leur aile sifflante.
Le guide qui conduit ces pèlerins des airs
Delà les océans, les bois et les déserts,
Comme pour exciter leur allure trop lente,
De moment en moment jette son cri perçant.
Comme un double ruban la caravane ondoie,
Bruit étrangement, et par le ciel déploie
Son grand triangle ailé qui va s’élargissant.
Mais leurs frères captifs répandus dans la plaine,
Engourdis par le froid, cheminent gravement.
Un enfant en haillons en sifflant les promène,
Comme de lourds vaisseaux balancés lentement.
Ils entendent le cri de la tribu qui passe,
Ils érigent leur tête ; et regardant s’enfuir
Les libres voyageurs au travers de l’espace,
Les captifs tout à coup se lèvent pour partir.
Ils agitent en vain leurs ailes impuissantes,
Et, dressés sur leurs pieds, sentent confusément,
A cet appel errant se lever grandissantes
La liberté première au fond du coeur dormant,
La fièvre de l’espace et des tièdes rivages.
Dans les champs pleins de neige ils courent effarés,
Et jetant par le ciel des cris désespérés
Ils répondent longtemps à leurs frères sauvages.
Guy de Maupassant
(1850 – 1893)
Les oies sauvages
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Snow in the Suburbs
Every branch big with it,
Bent every twig with it;
Every fork like a white web-foot;
Every street and pavement mute:
Some flakes have lost their way, and grope back upward when
Meeting those meandering down they turn and descend again.
The palings are glued together like a wall,
And there is no waft of wind with the fleecy fall.
A sparrow enters the tree,
Whereon immediately
A snow-lump thrice his own slight size
Descends on him and showers his head and eye
And overturns him,
And near inurns him,
And lights on a nether twig, when its brush
Starts off a volley of other lodging lumps with a rush.
The steps are a blanched slope,
Up which, with feeble hope,
A black cat comes, wide-eyed and thin;
And we take him in.
Thomas Hardy
(1840 – 1928)
Snow in the Suburbs
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To Winter
Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows!
There is a subtle sweetness in the sun,
The ripples on the stream’s breast gaily run,
The wind more boisterously by me blows,
And each succeeding day now longer grows.
The birds a gladder music have begun,
The squirrel, full of mischief and of fun,
From maples’ topmost branch the brown twig throws.
I read these pregnant signs, know what they mean:
I know that thou art making ready to go.
Oh stay! I fled a land where fields are green
Always, and palms wave gently to and fro,
And winds are balmy, blue brooks ever sheen,
To ease my heart of its impassioned woe.
Claude McKay
(1889 – 1948)
To Winter
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Les quatre saisons – L’hiver
C’est l’hiver. Le charbon de terre
Flambe en ma chambre solitaire.
La neige tombe sur les toits.
Blanche ! Oh, ses beaux seins blancs et froids!
Même sillage aux cheminées
Qu’en ses tresses disséminées.
Au bal, chacun jette, poli,
Les mots féroces de l’oubli,
L’eau qui chantait s’est prise en glace,
Amour, quel ennui te remplace!
Charles Cros
(1842 – 1888)
Les quatre saisons – L’hiver
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Sehnsucht nach Liebe
Alles liebet, alles scherzet
In der fröhlichen Natur;
Alles küsset, alles herzet
Auf den Höhn in Wald und Flur!
Läßt der holde Lenz sich nieder,
Sanft umschwärmt vom lauen West,
Senkt der Vogel sein Gefieder,
Bauet liebend sich ein Nest.
Und der Löwe flieht das Morden,
Das sonst höchste Lust ihm schafft;
Er verläßt der Brüder Horden,
Huldigt Amors Zauberkraft.
Und dir soll ich mich entziehen,
Die uns menschlich fühlen lehrt?
Liebe! ach, dich soll ich fliehen,
Die der Tiger selbst verehrt?
Ich allein nur soll dich meiden,
Holde Spenderin der Lust?
Ich soll wilde Tiere neiden
Um das Fühlen ihrer Brust?
Nein! dem schönsten aller Triebe
Sei mein fühlend Herz geweiht!
Schenke mir Themirens Liebe,
Amor, Gott der Zärtlichkeit!
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
(Wien 1791 – 1872)
Sehnsucht nach Liebe (Gedicht)
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Vergissmeinnicht
(Forget-me-not))
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone
returning over the nightmare ground
we found the place again, and found
the soldier sprawling in the sun.
The frowning barrel of his gun
overshadowing. As we came on
that day, he hit my tank with one
like the entry of a demon.
Look. Here in the gunpit spoil
the dishonoured picture of his girl
who has put: Steffi. Vergissmeinnicht.
in a copybook gothic script.
We see him almost with content,
abased, and seeming to have paid
and mocked at by his own equipment
that’s hard and good when he’s decayed.
But she would weep to see today
how on his skin the swart flies move;
the dust upon the paper eye
and the burst stomach like a cave.
For here the lover and killer are mingled
who had one body and one heart.
And death who had the soldier singled
has done the lover mortal hurt.
Keith Douglas
(1920 – 1944)
Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not)
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No Man Is an Island
No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were.
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
John Donne
(1572–1631)
No Man Is an Island
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Poem
African Dream
(meeting Alf Khumalo:
“call me Alf” he said with a wink)
take of in Cape Town at dawn
the horizon is an oyster
the mountain table
is ready for breakfast
next to me an elderly man
sits with his camera
adjusting different lenses
– he looks happy
I open my lab top
to type a few words trying
to catch the peacefulness
of this early morning flight
above Kimberley we fly
through various cumuli
he lifts his camera – I ask
“What are you doing sir?”
he explains the softness & asks
“What are you doing lady?”
I put what you see
through your lens in words
like the mushrooms on our plates
he looks surprised asks when & where
he can buy my first collection
there is none so far & he has left me
leaving his work in my heart
c.w.
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Winter: My Secret
I tell my secret? No indeed, not I:
Perhaps some day, who knows?
But not to-day; it froze, and blows, and snows,
And you’re too curious: fie!
You want to hear it? well:
Only, my secret’s mine, and I won’t tell.
Or, after all, perhaps there’s none:
Suppose there is no secret after all,
But only just my fun.
To-day’s a nipping day, a biting day;
In which one wants a shawl,
A veil, a cloak, and other wraps:
I cannot ope to every one who taps,
And let the draughts come whistling through my hall;
Come bounding and surrounding me,
Come buffeting, astounding me,
Nipping and clipping through my wraps and all.
I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows
His nose to Russian snows
To be pecked at by every wind that blows?
You would not peck? I thank you for good-will,
Believe, but leave that truth untested still.
Spring’s an expansive time: yet I don’t trust
March with its peck of dust,
Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers,
Nor even May, whose flowers
One frost may wither through the sunless hours.
Perhaps some languid summer day,
When drowsy birds sing less and less,
And golden fruit is ripening to excess,
If there’s not too much sun nor too much cloud,
And the warm wind is neither still nor loud,
Perhaps my secret I may say,
Or you may guess.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
(1830 – 1894)
Winter: My Secret
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