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Item Number: 126360
Title: La qualité de l'ombre. 3x3 Künstler europas : European artist
Author: Reifenscheid, Beate (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788836626885
Description: Milano: Silvana, 2013. 30cm., pbk., 145pp. illus., most in color. German-English text. Exhibition held at Ludwig Museum, Koblenz. Summary: Even during the most brutal and frightening periods of the twentieth century, borders within Europe were porous, areas of bridge-building – if not physically, then at least morally, intellectually and spiritually. Great artists and intellectuals expressed these bonds through their refusal to obey prohibitions and totalitarian orders. They provided their resistance with manifest form by maintaining contact in spite of and beyond the limits of opposing camps in times of war, by establishing networks of thought and maintaining their work. Horrifying traces were left behind in the landscapes of our cities and in our consciousness; however, these should not be permitted to obscure the fact that a creative force is at work in establishing a unified Europe of thought, a project that remains 'under construction'. Tthe catalogue created to accompany the show will not only represent the works, but also incorporate the reflections of the curators and a discussion between the participating artists about their own history and their idea of a transmission that has allowed all of them to develop their own artistic personas. Substantial space will also be occupied by the conceptual idea regarding the "quality of the shadow", which all of the artists have taken up and developed on their own, and truly throughout their entire work – despite that occasional loneliness or those intimate relationships that diverse, sometimes indispensable, circumstances have burdened them with, and through which they have maintained this idea in spite of all hardships. It is not rare for them to have been supported by the discreet solidarity of other artists while creating their work. A text by a young art historian will complete this reflection on the paths of creativity.
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