- Ajuntament de Barcelona
- Institut de Cultura de Barcelona
Lost paradise, the Angel's gaze East of Eden, a garden show Juri Steiner & Armin Kerber
Material type: TextLanguage: Anglès Publication details: Berna: Zentrum Paul Klee 2008 Description: 128 p. : il ; 24 cmSubject(s): Klee, Paul, 1879-1940 | 2010 | Art i història | Exposicions | Violència en l'art | Zentrum Paul Klee (Berna) | 2010 | Arte e historia | Exposiciones | Klee, Paul (1879-1940) | Violencia en el arte | Zentrum Paul Klee (Berna)Online resources: 15/06/2010 Summary: Lost Paradise The Angels Gaze about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one perceives the angel of history. His face is towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. (Walter Benjamin) which served as Walter Benjamins visual allegory for his angel of history. Our exhibition "Lost Paradise" means to follow the horrified gaze of the angel as he looks down upon the calamities of the world from the vantage point of heaven. We have extremely fortunate circumstances to thank for the precious work being able to make the trip from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the Zentrum Paul Klee. Complementing it will be some one hundred and fifty works by artists past and present depicting the flipside of "Klees Enchanted Garden": the wreckage of progress, the world of destruction, erratically meandering individuals, life stripped bare as well as the repeated attempts to visualise what the poet Rilke called the totgeglaubte Park (the park presumed dead) and place oneself in the lost paradise. The artist-couple Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger are overseeing the excrescence of a plant-like work consisting of leaf-laden bowers, distressed fruit and award-winning apples, with arboreal eruptions, irregular lights and samba merry-making till girls, crystal growths, deer antlers and hydrangea, horse manure-like tubers, funny looking shrivelled cacti, flying seeds and bluebells fashioned out of Novilan. This space-filling, intermingled amalgamation of an installation can be seen proliferating along the Zentrum Paul Klees Museum Street, out into Paul Klees Enchanted Garden and down to the Lost Paradise.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Monografia | Biblioteca Museu Picasso | C 2010 12 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2010-148 |
Browsing Biblioteca Museu Picasso shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
C 2010 1 Goya e il mondo moderno | C 2010 10 Las Meninas de Richard Hamilton / | C 2010 11 Las Meninas de Richard Hamilton / | C 2010 12 Lost paradise, the Angel's gaze | C 2010 13 Confluencias en el barro : | C 2010 14 Picasso versus Rusiñol / | C 2010 14 bis Picasso versus Rusiñol / |
Catàleg de l'exposició presentada del 31/05/2010 al 26/10/2010
Picasso, Sueño y mentira de Franco (1937), p. 74-75
Lost Paradise The Angels Gaze about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one perceives the angel of history. His face is towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. (Walter Benjamin) which served as Walter Benjamins visual allegory for his angel of history. Our exhibition "Lost Paradise" means to follow the horrified gaze of the angel as he looks down upon the calamities of the world from the vantage point of heaven. We have extremely fortunate circumstances to thank for the precious work being able to make the trip from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the Zentrum Paul Klee. Complementing it will be some one hundred and fifty works by artists past and present depicting the flipside of "Klees Enchanted Garden": the wreckage of progress, the world of destruction, erratically meandering individuals, life stripped bare as well as the repeated attempts to visualise what the poet Rilke called the totgeglaubte Park (the park presumed dead) and place oneself in the lost paradise. The artist-couple Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger are overseeing the excrescence of a plant-like work consisting of leaf-laden bowers, distressed fruit and award-winning apples, with arboreal eruptions, irregular lights and samba merry-making till girls, crystal growths, deer antlers and hydrangea, horse manure-like tubers, funny looking shrivelled cacti, flying seeds and bluebells fashioned out of Novilan. This space-filling, intermingled amalgamation of an installation can be seen proliferating along the Zentrum Paul Klees Museum Street, out into Paul Klees Enchanted Garden and down to the Lost Paradise.
Donatiu
R. 2010/148
There are no comments on this title.