Most moving moment of the day today was standing amongst the 2,700 tombstones of blackish gray at the Holocaust memorial. Words can't describe the emotion just standing there and looking at all the individually designed tombstones that are just not quite square and of differing sizes. There are passageways that roll through the memorial that almost make you feel trapped and claustrophobic - the fear, the pain and the frustration............
The light was good today even after a thunderstorm with lightening and hail then me in my all weather jacket (luckily). Photographed so much today mainly around Unter den Linden, Brandenburg Tor, Reichstach and Berlin Hauptbahnhof before heading out to the Roof Top Studios in Prenzlauer Berg that's another story that is continuing. Needless to say I climbed those stairs again and there was a misunderstanding with the meeting time. Lucky a lovely Canadian artist called Jeff Johnson showed me around.
The exhibition that I saw today was at Deutsche Guggenheim and was a delight to view. I now have a new found appreciation for Joseph Albers after seeing the work in the flesh. The show was called Abstraction and Empathy - reflecting the polarities of the altered landscape of the the second half of the 20th Century. Other artists in the exhibition included, Klee, Guston, Palermo, Schutte, Buthe and Mondrian.
The video I took of the memorial is only a short piece but gives you an idea of scale and depth of the place insitu.
Lorna
The memorials seem to be very sad place.
ReplyDeleteGreat to know you are meeting other artists.