Art
Chiasmus
Closed Sessions · Jack Larsen – Break
Ravenna
In 2020, I plan to see the greatest masterpieces of Christian art (6th-century Byzantine mosaics) and Dante’s tomb in Ravenna as recommended by Clive Bell.
James Lee Byars @ Kewenig Galerie
art berlin 2019
Avalanche

I wander through quattrocento dioramas and Hungarian night trains. An avalanche in Monte Rosa … my grandmother died.

When your body lies in Paris

Guido van der Werve
2012
1 channel video, color video, stereo audio
1920px x 1080px, 54′
By chance, I recently saw the birthplace of Alexander the Great, this archaeological site captured in a pink haze by my camera from one of Guido van der Werve’s video installations at the newly opened Fluentum located in the suburbs of Berlin. I started the video midway through and saw the artist running, swimming, and cycling across Europe. Along the way, he procures a cup of soil from the birthplace of Chopin and then at the end of his journey, places it in front of Chopin’s tomb in Paris. When the video had looped back to the beginning, there it was – Pella – appearing suddenly and immediately taking on an importance as I tried to attach meaning to its sighting. Does this mean I should be reading more Aristotle? I thought back to my own birthplace. Chopin had told his sister to transport his heart back to Poland where it rests now before his death. Guido van der Werve’s completion of a 1000-mile triathlon retraces the journey of Chopin’s heart in reverse from Warsaw to Paris.
“Graffitiing our Hearts across the Stalls…”