The Center of Media of the city is an incredible big building where most of the cultural activities of Karlsruhe take place. This impressive center of studies and exhibition hall is the locus for the biggest research in media done in Germany, with sculptures and interventions all over. The place completely encourages the visitor to dive deep in the ocean of new media, including two museums and a school for the arts and related activities amaze by the number of technological devices.
In the Museum of Medien Technology an exhibition caught my attention. “Between two deaths” shows different works in a collective representation of the idea of death. Curated by Felix Ensslin it is a careful homage to the other side in an atmosphere that lets you meditate profoundly in the hypothetical experience of being six feet under. Ensslin exposed the information about this exhibition and its preparation a year ago on of our Monday's night lectures. It is incredible to see how a wonderful project was crystallized.
Wonderful pieces can be seen. “Sisters, Saints and Sibyls” is a piece of Nan Golding that surprises because of the strength and cruelty of an autobiographical series of pictures of decadent scenes, where Golding presents her friends and family, including a strong succession of images that show herself inside the hospital with ulcers and wounds perpetrated by burning herself on her right arm.
Another piece that surprised me and left me a wonderful taste on the mouth was “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Rozelie Hospital,Sydney)” where the Venezuelan artist that lives in New York, Javier Tellez shows in an incredible video-installation two videos that successfully establish a dialog between craziness and nostalgia, between law and medicine, between a contemporary intervention in an old movie about Jeanne d’Arc and the stories of different female patients of a psychiatric institution in Australia, all of them with antecedents of intentions of committing suicide.
The work is incredible strong. It produces a void in the stomach, a nostalgia and anguish for the patients, that seem to live, and that is the best part of the installation, during the time of the Inquisition, relating the contemporary mishandling of the different patients with the abuse and misuse of humanity during that time. The methods of psychology seem to be very similar to former times.
This installation deeply touched my heart, not only because of the thematic and the paradigmatic way of posting information, but because of Javier, because of the human side of this artist. I must confess that it is incredible to see a person that comes from a similar environment to mine, from the same city, knowing the same people and with a similar background, growing so much in his praxis. Javier was always full of potential and skills. I was overwhelmed by emotion and proud of this piece. Now I can say without any doubt that from the magnificent "Caracas Lion" to this piece exists an evident change, a step forward, that puts him into the position of one of the most interesting artist of my country. A toast for Tellez!!!!!!!!!!!
In the Museum of Medien Technology an exhibition caught my attention. “Between two deaths” shows different works in a collective representation of the idea of death. Curated by Felix Ensslin it is a careful homage to the other side in an atmosphere that lets you meditate profoundly in the hypothetical experience of being six feet under. Ensslin exposed the information about this exhibition and its preparation a year ago on of our Monday's night lectures. It is incredible to see how a wonderful project was crystallized.
Wonderful pieces can be seen. “Sisters, Saints and Sibyls” is a piece of Nan Golding that surprises because of the strength and cruelty of an autobiographical series of pictures of decadent scenes, where Golding presents her friends and family, including a strong succession of images that show herself inside the hospital with ulcers and wounds perpetrated by burning herself on her right arm.
Another piece that surprised me and left me a wonderful taste on the mouth was “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Rozelie Hospital,Sydney)” where the Venezuelan artist that lives in New York, Javier Tellez shows in an incredible video-installation two videos that successfully establish a dialog between craziness and nostalgia, between law and medicine, between a contemporary intervention in an old movie about Jeanne d’Arc and the stories of different female patients of a psychiatric institution in Australia, all of them with antecedents of intentions of committing suicide.
The work is incredible strong. It produces a void in the stomach, a nostalgia and anguish for the patients, that seem to live, and that is the best part of the installation, during the time of the Inquisition, relating the contemporary mishandling of the different patients with the abuse and misuse of humanity during that time. The methods of psychology seem to be very similar to former times.
This installation deeply touched my heart, not only because of the thematic and the paradigmatic way of posting information, but because of Javier, because of the human side of this artist. I must confess that it is incredible to see a person that comes from a similar environment to mine, from the same city, knowing the same people and with a similar background, growing so much in his praxis. Javier was always full of potential and skills. I was overwhelmed by emotion and proud of this piece. Now I can say without any doubt that from the magnificent "Caracas Lion" to this piece exists an evident change, a step forward, that puts him into the position of one of the most interesting artist of my country. A toast for Tellez!!!!!!!!!!!
