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Kabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. What once
was, can one day become again, wrote the political scientist
Ekkehart Krippendorff. In line with this motto, some twenty artists
from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, the United States and
Switzerland reflect on a different Kabul, without ignoring the past
and present crises. Whether with a reference to the locality or
starting out from intuition and imagination - the volume assembles
newly created artworks which reflect on the Afghan garden as a
microcosm of the entire world. It contains the life of humans with
animals and plants in all its wonder and beauty. Contributions on
the gardens of Kabul, the garden as a symbol of generosity and
friendship and the history of a private garden near Teheran amplify
the forward-looking vision.
The Bauhaus master Johannes Ittenis one of the prominent
protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few
people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an
artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town of
Thun and Lake Thun. Johannes Itten gained decisive impulses for the
development of his concept of art and his path towards abstraction
through various stations and sojourns in Thun and its surroundings.
By means of examples of the representations of nature in his early
work the publication shows in scholarly depth how Itten discovered
his own, very personal and later internationally famous approach to
art and painting style and presents his pictorial transformation of
natureextending through to the artist's late works.
At the centre of Rene Myrha's (*1939) expressive oeuvre lie
landscapes and rigorous compositional room perspectives which are
transformed into stage-like settings. They form the scenery for the
choreography of his figures. Myrha examines them through specific
media in drawings, oil, acrylic, sculpture and reliefs. Born in
Delsberg in Switzerland, the painter encountered the contemporary
movements of art and design during the 1960s in Paris and Milan. In
the foreground of his activities lie forms and volumes which
combine and breakthrough constructed and organically created
spaces. In his later works they are animated by a surreal figural
universe. The publication shows a representative cross-section of
Myrha's oeuvre, from Pop Art to an obsessive preoccupation with a
mysterious and dramatic world of figures.
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