Tag: Berlin
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unexpected encounters #8: phantasmagorias
The world dominated by its phantasmagorias—this, to make use of Baudelaire’s term, is “modernity.” Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project He who has once begun to open the fan of memory never comes to the end of its segments. No image satisfies him, for he has seen that it can be unfolded, and only in its folds…
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unexpected encounters #3—self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
Je est un autre. Arthur Rimbaud, letter to Georges Izambard, 13 May 1871 3.1 peeping tom. Berlin, March 15, 2016 The stills are dense with suspense and danger, and they all look as if they were directed by Hitchcock. The invariant subject is The Girl in Trouble, even if The Girl herself does not always know it. In Barbie-doll…
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curves #3
Tokyo, September 2010 #1 + 5 Frankfurt #2–4 Berlin March 2016 #1 Calgary #2–6 Mexico City February 2018 Mexico City, February 2018
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are, bure, boke #4
Tokyo, September 2011 #1–2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 Singapore, February 2016 4–6 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 Frankfurt, March 2016 #1–4 Frankfurt #5–6 Berlin March 2016 Berlin, March 2016
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blues + yellows #2
#1 Johor Bahru #2-3 Siem Reap #4-5 Hanoi Jan-Feb 2016 #1-3 Saigon Feb 2016 #4 Frankfurt March 2016 #1-2 Frankfurt #3-4 Berlin #5-7 Prague (Karlín) March-April 2016 #1-4 Prague (Karlín + Žižkov) #5-6 Prague-Brno rail journey April 2016 Calgary, 2016-2017 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah February 2023 Kuching, Sarawak February 2023
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diagonals #2
Prague #1-3 Kampa Museum #4 Franz Kafka Square #1 + 6 Baba #2 Na Příkopě #3 Ovocný trh/Fruit Market #4-5 Trade Fair Palace, Aero poster by František Zelenka) #1 Palladium mall #2 + 3 Prague metro #4 Hradčany Karlín Vyšehrad (#5 apartment block on Neklanova St, Josef Chochol, 1913-14) #1 Smíchov (exhibit in David Černý’s…
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Kunsthalle (Berlin walls)
A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a permanent collection. Wikipedia The first gallery shows fragments of the Berlin Wall for sale in shop windows (#1 + 2) or left standing as a tourist attraction. The rest of…
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self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
These were taken at the exhibition Cindy Sherman: Works from the Olbricht Collection at me Collectors Room, Berlin, on 15 March 2016. The closest I’ll ever get to one of the greatest artists of our time.
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wagon 272
A photographic record of a rail journey on the Berlin to Warsaw Express on March 16, 2016. The light that day was remarkable.
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