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Combining the collections Monster Poems, Morbus and Fashions, Nora
Gomringer's trilogy offers a modern anthropology. Gomringer shines
a light on the all-too-human, plays with the superficial and loves
the invisible. Accompanied by Reimar Limmer's illustrations, these
poems unpick ideas around the monstrous, the inscribed and gendered
body and the face we present to the people around us. Packed with
pop culture references and always casting an eye back to where we
came from, The Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisibilities is a call for
a radical humanism.
Deconstructivism is understood to encompass a specific form of
thought and a specific way of dealing with materials. Freiwald's
art is distinguished by its impressive manner of bringing together
both sides. First, he comes to grips with the material foundation
of painting, by singeing, cutting, or sawing the picture support.
The remaining space is pure pictorial space and is entirely subject
to the expressive quality of the planes of colour filling it. His
works are thus always new ways of presenting an intriguing
dialectic. They alternate between material and effect, inquiring
into the relationships between the object and the phenomenal
expressive force of art. The exhibition catalogue captures this
lively philosophy in a sublimely aesthetic form. It shows how
thought and vision overlap in Freiwald's work to become truly
visionary.
Can the fascination for music also be expressed in words and
pictures? The lyricist Nora Gomringer and the documentary
photographer Andreas Herzau pursue this question within the scope
of an innovative test arrangement. They plunge into the cosmos of
the Bamberg Symphony: at home in Bamberg, on international
tours-this is the daily routine of this extraordinary orchestra.
While Herzau assumes the role of the participant observer, with her
overall lyrical approach 2015 winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
coaxes the necessary voice from the orchestra. They capture what is
being played both on as well as behind the stage, and shine a light
on individual musicians as well as their place within the group.The
result is a book in which lyric poetry and photography act in
concert for the purpose of making the invisible, the music,
visible! For more information about the tour dates of the Bamberger
Symphoniker pleaseclick here
Light, colour, materiality. These are perhaps the most significant
components of Wolfgang Kessler’s (b. 1962) paintings. An
additional characteristic is the tranquillity and introversion of
the figures, who are usually depicted individually before a black
background. In contemporary painting, this practice is unusual. At
the same time, it touches upon recollected images and a notion of
beauty that are buried in our cultural memory. When the question
arises as to whether painting is or may be beautiful, one likes to
look far back to art-historical frames of reference. One might
arrive, for instance, at Delacroix’s works, which started to
engage with subjects that extended beyond the common notion of
beauty. Terribly Beautiful - Wolfgang Kessler is a painter of quiet
yet aggressive, power. The comprehensive publication offers a
detailed insight into Wolfgang Kessler's complete paintings from
2013-2022. Text in English and German.Â
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Hydra's Heads (Paperback)
Nora Gomringer; Translated by Annie Rutherford
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R244
Discovery Miles 2 440
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German poet Nora Gomringer is here translated into English for the
first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford. There is
no simple equivalent to Nora Gomringer in the UK but Kate Tempest
is perhaps the closest in terms of the way she is experimental yet
remaining accessible and in her ability to stride seamlessly from
stage to page to film to literature festival. These are poems which
defy categorisation - interweaving the best of page and spoken word
poetry to create something entirely of her own. These are poems
which laugh, howl, stamp their lines. They are candid, wry,
compassionate. There are poems about the darker times of Germany's
modern history, reworkings of myths and fairy tales, and a
3-page-long ode to sex against a wall. All brought perfectly into
English by Annie Rutherford.
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