With the fascinating exhibition “Through the walls“ gives the Berlin-Gropius-Bau to 30. Anniversary of the fall food for thought on topics such as separation, division and populism.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Mona Hatoum: “Waiting is Forbidden”, 2006-2008
“Waiting prohibited” is in Arabic and English on the blue road sign. It is a warning for all marginalised groups, whether homeless, or – as in the case of the artist – Refugees. The work explores her personal experience, after you had to emigrate due to the Lebanese civil war, to London.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Gustav Metzger: In Memoriam, 2005
Metzger’s sculpture is concerned with the story of a Jewish Fugitive and links it thematically with the Situation of today’s refugees worldwide. The visitors can enter the maze from cardboard first, easily, until the passage narrows further and the Passage is eventually blocked completely.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Michael Kvium: “Beach of Plenty”, 2017
The painting shows, at first glance, is a holiday Paradise. On second glance, it is but apparent that the beach in a rubber boat approaching. One Person even went overboard and calling for help. The discrepancy between ideal for travelers and Refugees, meeting here, will be visible. The Mediterranean sea acts as a boundary between these contrasting realities.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
José Bechara: “Ok, Ok, Let’s Talk”, 2006
50 wooden tables, slightly inclined, are connected in this plastic together. Protrude two opposing chairs. The work illustrates the difficulties in interpersonal communication that arise when the intentions of the counterpart is not cleared. Dialog is impossible. The work calls on an exchange.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Tagreed Darghouth: “Vision Machines; Shall You See Me Better Now?”, 2019
The series “Vision Machines” to the Lebanese artist, Tagreed Darghouth shows cameras, drones, satellites, and other devices that can be used for Monitoring. It is expressed as critique of modern society in which the citizens control in a limited and under pressure.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Dora García: “Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years”, 2017
In this Performance, both performers as well as visiting with indoor and cross marks on the floor. The Installation illustrates the metaphorical walls that separate us from people in our environment, and wants to call for better communication with each other.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Anri Sala: “1395 Days without Red,” 2011
The Film focuses on the Yugoslav civil war and the siege of the city of Sarajevo that began in 1992 and for almost four years lasted. The Trauma of the residents, and it is the everyday life in the city to continue to be treated.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Mona Hatoum: “Waiting is Forbidden”, 2006-2008
“Waiting prohibited” is in Arabic and English on the blue road sign. It is a warning for all marginalised groups, whether homeless, or – as in the case of the artist – Refugees. The work explores her personal experience, after you had to emigrate due to the Lebanese civil war, to London.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Gustav Metzger: In Memoriam, 2005
Metzger’s sculpture is concerned with the story of a Jewish Fugitive and links it thematically with the Situation of today’s refugees worldwide. The visitors can enter the maze from cardboard first, easily, until the passage narrows further and the Passage is eventually blocked completely.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Michael Kvium: “Beach of Plenty”, 2017
The painting shows, at first glance, is a holiday Paradise. On second glance, it is but apparent that the beach in a rubber boat approaching. One Person even went overboard and calling for help. The discrepancy between ideal for travelers and Refugees, meeting here, will be visible. The Mediterranean sea acts as a boundary between these contrasting realities.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
José Bechara: “Ok, Ok, Let’s Talk”, 2006
50 wooden tables, slightly inclined, are connected in this plastic together. Protrude two opposing chairs. The work illustrates the difficulties in interpersonal communication that arise when the intentions of the counterpart is not cleared. Dialog is impossible. The work calls on an exchange.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Tagreed Darghouth: “Vision Machines; Shall You See Me Better Now?”, 2019
The series “Vision Machines” to the Lebanese artist, Tagreed Darghouth shows cameras, drones, satellites, and other devices that can be used for Monitoring. It is expressed as critique of modern society in which the citizens control in a limited and under pressure.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Dora García: “Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years”, 2017
In this Performance, both performers as well as visiting with indoor and cross marks on the floor. The Installation illustrates the metaphorical walls that separate us from people in our environment, and wants to call for better communication with each other.
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More current than ever: The exhibition “walls to go”
Anri Sala: “1395 Days without Red,” 2011
The Film focuses on the Yugoslav civil war and the siege of the city of Sarajevo that began in 1992 and for almost four years lasted. The Trauma of the residents, and it is the everyday life in the city to continue to be treated.
Walls are resistant. Walls separate. Walls to politically intimidate, as the US President, Trump populist postulated border fence to Mexico. And walls can bring death, like the Berlin wall, to the more than 140 people were killed, mostly by the targeted shooting death of GDR border troops.
Walls, as the monstrous monster
The Monstrous and Inhuman of walls has constantly challenged artists and driven hard charges. But it wanted to also actions, such as those of the first “Wall artist” Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny, including in the 1980s “Berlin art”, and the wall, thus – intentionally or unintentionally – something Human breathed.
Empathy is The curator Till Fellrath car:
In the now opened exhibition”walls” is to feel this ambivalence. 30. Anniversary of the Opening of the Berlin wall to keep cheering, and the world confidence that the fall of the wall triggered as a world event, within limits. Instead of the end of the story, how it looked at the time, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama the victory of liberalism ushered in, many people do exactly the opposite: a continued history of the division, the populists steadfastly push ahead, because they benefit from it.
This pessimistic view of the world is set apart in many Works, in which 28 artists in a fundamental way with the physical presence of walls and the consequences for the people concerned. And yet, again and again, it’s also about how division and division can be overcome.
Empathy and emotions
The artists involved are not, therefore, the same hopeless optimists, presents the curator Till Fellrath clear to the DW: “All the artists have personally lived with walls or limits in any Form. The power of art lies in the fact that you can develop empathy.” You can not change the world, maybe. But everyone should make an effort to develop empathy and a different point of view, adds Fellrath-explanatory.
A wall of silence? The Installation of José Bechara
Already in the run-up to much-discussed work of the in Rio live José Bechara, the exemplary leads. In “Ok, Ok Lets Talk” he has 50 wooden tables connected to each other. In places, he makes a waste land into a Void run. In two Places protrude empty chair backrest up. They stand for the fractions and limits of communication, or rather for the attempt of a Dialogue? The question can be answered by each for themselves.
Already clear, the film projection of “the Shadow Play is because” (our article image), the asylum-seekers in Switzerland shows. The New York-based Javier Téllez has with you as the main is a shadow cast created by the game, leaves you with your hands stories of expulsion and exclusion tell. Suddenly La Main “(then to” “see The Hand”, 1947), a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, which he created from the world war II-a reminder of his escape from Paris. Uprooting and violence as a timeless experience – and a threat.
Threatening Slaps To The Face
Walls of all kinds of Lebanese artist Siska condemned here prior to its Installation in the Gropius Bau
On the other way, loop from the 1977-produced Performance of “Light/Dark” Marina Abramovic and Ulay in the confrontation go into a Video endlessly. The Couple of slaps alternately and without interruption. Unable to communication and compromise, both insist on their point of view, race against the invisible wall of the each other.
Of the invisible, “latent” walls, a video installation by the Lebanese artist, Siska told. “Latent border(s)” is a Two-channel film installation in a walk-in Tunnel. Embedded in a sound collage with Interviews and city sounds of Beirut and Berlin, the Film not only senses the visible lines of separation in the two cities, but also the latent, not-yet-elusive divisions. As in many other Exhibitions also Siska area refers to religious, political, social or ethnic exclusion.
Of course, the exhibition at the Berlin wall itself. It is not only in the minds of present, but also physically not impossible to imagine, but she stood close to the Martin-Gropius-Bau, what still remains of the wall tools. Questioning, observant, but not afraid to meet the gaze of the girl, the Sibylle Bergemann in the turn of days in front of the wall on Bernauer street. Bergemann was probably the most distinguished photographer in the GDR, famous for their fashion photos that appeared in the women’s magazine “Sibylle”, but also appreciated for Work that can show your melancholy, little ideological point of view on the everyday life of the GDR. The six photos shown are highly sensitive seismographs of the time.
Ask looks end: The photographs of Sybille Bergemann reveal a lot about the mood, the time of the change
Transparent Walls
Many of the Works on display are fascinating and suggestive approaches to the topic wall. A highlight was the Installation of the New Yorkers Fred sandback is certainly. The in 2003 deceased artist left behind in his sketch-book information to its “Sculptural study,” which was now realized for the first Time. Black acrylic yarn stretched up to the ceiling for a whole exhibition space. Whoever enters him, feeling almost physically the spatial proportions that make the yarn experience. The imagined becomes the real space. See-through and transparency, the Confidence that walls are surmountable convey transparency but. The utopia to go through walls, suddenly becomes a reality.
The exhibition “walls to go” is up to 19. To see January 2020 at the Gropius Bau in Berlin.