Sound Advice 100
Saturday, 24 December 2011 19:29
24trentedeux wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in this 100th Sound Advice!
Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
Ulrike Ottinger at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Monday, 28 November 2011 17:05
By awarding the Hannah-Höch-Preis 2011, offered by the State of Berlin’s Department of Cultural Affairs, the complex work of filmmaker and artist Ulrike Ottinger will be honored. At Neuer Berliner Kunstverein the unknown and previously unseen early oeuvre of Ottinger’s paintings (1963–68) will be shown on the occasion of this ceremony. While in recent years Ulrike Ottinger’s cinematic view is characterized by high ethnographic reflexivity, in her paintings and serigraphs some later icons of her early films are already developed. This yet unknown aspect of her oeuvre, till this day, proves relevant contemporaneity, which is in conflict with the present and past of post-Nazi societies as well as other cultures. In her idiosyncratic early work, inspired by pop art, her interest in the principle of collage/montage and the surreal/absurd already shows in the way it later recurs in the films.
From 1962 to 1968 Ulrike Ottinger was living as an independent artist in Paris and, at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, attended lectures on art history, religious studies and ethnology of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu. From the beginning of her artistic career she has also been dedicated to photography, writing screenplays and directing for the theater. Ulrike Ottinger participated with her works, among others, at the 3rd berlin biennale (2004), Documenta11, Kassel (2002) and Venice Biennale (1980). Solo exhibitions and retrospectives took place at e.g. Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2004) und im Museum of Modern Art, New York (2000). In 2010, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Ulrike Ottinger - Hannah-Höch-Preis 2011 // Neue Berliner Kunstverein (Map) // Till the 22nd, January 2012
RADIKAL! Klaviermusik der Novembergruppe at the Berlinische Galerie
Thursday, 24 November 2011 16:44
Following the November Revolution and the intriduction of the young Weimar Republic was founded in 1918 in Berlin the "Novembergruppe". This group composed of artists and architects from the avant-garde were promoting through a radical transformation of art and culture a democratisation of these fields in order to improve their social benefits.
Right from the beginning of the 20s the "Novembergruppe" were already well established in the Berliner cultural life. From 1922, writers and musicians came to reinforce the polyvalent artistic community. "One thing which is sure", said the pianist Matthew Rubenstein, "is that the Novemberguppe's composers were among the most audacious and talented of their generation. Everyone of them were looking in its own way and with his own style for the way to go through the crisis which occured in the art field and in the society."
Programm:
Welcoming : Dr. Ralf Burmeister, Berlinische Galerie
Introduction : Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rathert, Ludwig-Maximimilianst-University, Munich
- Eduard Erdmann: Fünf Klavierstücke, op. 6
- Wladimir Vogel: Variétude
- HH Stuckenschmidt: Der Champagner-Cobler und die grüne Sonne
- Philipp Jarnach: Burlesca
› Short break ‹
- Hanns Eisler: Klavierstücke op 8 (Auswahl)
- Stephan Wolpe: Drei Klavierstücke
- Marsch Nr. 1
- Gesang, weil ich etwas teueres verlassen muss
- Presto agitato
- Heinz Tiessen: Vier Klavierstücke
- Papillon
- Foxtrott
- Erinnerung
- Florestan
RADIKAL! Klaviermusik der Novembergruppe // Berlinische Galerie (Map) // 7pm // 5€ - 8€
Joe Sacco's comic books
Wednesday, 23 November 2011 16:47
The Amercian-Maltese journalist Joe Sacco choosed to tell the stories of what he witnesses during his journeys to draw it instead of simply writing it down. He was on the field during the major conflicts of 20th century: the Vietnam war, the ex-Yougoslavia conflicts, more recently the Irak war et he shared the everyday life of the Indians living in the deepest poverty or the Chechen wives.
All his comic books are stories of History, stories of humanity, of inhumnity. Sacco gives the occasion to the forgotten to be heard and offers a different look on the news.
Through comics, the caracteristic objectivity of the classical journalism disappears, giving birth to a personal look thanks to which the author offers his direct impressions and his visions of the charachters he met during his travels. He gives us a look on the conflicts from the inside, portays real characters thus helping to understand the deepness of mankind and how the absurdities and atrocities he witnessed affect humans and their souls.
Joe Sacco's bibliography on Amazon
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