World Class
January 19 - Visiting an exquiste exibition at the museum kunstpalast in Duesseldorf: The Duesseldorf School of Painting 1819 - 1918. More than 400 paintings “demonstrate the high quality and diversity of the artists involved in the Duesseldorf School”. My favorites are among the works of the landscape painters: Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Hans Gude, Oswald Achenbach, Albert Bierstadt, Hugo Muehlig and first and foremost the Russian artist Iwan Iwanowitsch Schischkin.
Cherry Tree
January 8 - Full moon rising.
music film installation
January 4 - The Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt (MMK) shows video installations and other works by Douglas Gordon. The scottish artist, who - since 2010 - is a professor at Staedelschule, Frankfurt’s art academy, is considered to be "among the most important as well as the most influential artists of his generation". His latest work is intitled k.364. It is the Köchel catalogue number assigned to the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "After hearing this work of chamber music in Poznań (Poland), Gordon organized another performance of it with Avri Levitan (viola), Roi Shiloah (violin) and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio. The musicians’ journey from Berlin to Warsaw by way of Poznań and the performance of the symphony in Warsaw account for the major proportion of the film. The two musicians’ conversations on their way to Poland reveal that their pasts, and those of their parents, are complexly interwoven with German-Polish relations, and above all with the history of the Polish Jews during World War II." The installation features two large projection screens, two mirrors (reflecting the screens) and various loudspeakers. The film has a duration of 67 minutes. The visitor is supposed to walk through the installation.
New Year’s Walk
January 1 - The journey is the reward.