Art printpress berlin4/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() These makeshift formations gain an unconventional grace when they frame personally and temporarily what seemed only expressible generally’. ‘Network fatigue’, writes their friend and co-conspirator Pablo Larios, ‘leads to a – perhaps illusionary – state of refuge outside that network, using community as solidarity and avoiding the authorial responsibility of representational legibility – be that to gallery, institution, or distribution format. One could argue that for this ‘defiantly’ amateur theatre project in a rundown Kreuzberg shopfront as a whole, the artists were not so much interested in theatre as such, its history or even its reinvention by visual artists but rather as a tool or interface to produce ‘the social’, a community, or even a network wherein the productions were fictions that attempted to imagine new forms of sociality– ‘transient micro-communities of activity’ – as well as a critique: ‘But it’s crucial to distinguish a network from the network, since, as Facebook has taught us, the network as a series of small, personal links is its best illusion, … the intrapersonal as a back door to the cold machinations of a forceful, neoliberal techno-capitalism’. For him, the appeal in urban art lies in presenting art in a new context, away from the structures of the market and the gallery scene. Like Times, New Theater (2013-15) exists now only in memory or as free indirect discourse, with no official visual documentation from the artists except for its website and the unique posters made for each of its twenty productions by a large group of friends and colleagues, who often also acted in, co-wrote, scored and provided the sets, costumes and props, for the performances themselves. The Berlin artist Nomad is considered a critic of the advancing commercialization of the street art movement. Equally, the bar itself, a simple rectilinear object built from wood and covered in a grid of white tiles, would return again at New Theatre as well as in future iterations as benches or walls, in different colours and sizes, to the extent that these social sculptures act as a kind of pivotal infrastructure for their work generally, a barrier and a threshold designating and engendering further exchanges, further relations. Instead of documenting the project (they never released any images), the artists kept notes about the goings on – the punters, parties, performances and ‘hangings’– which would become the impetus for treatments for their plays produced later at New Theater. The bar was open for a year and became a popular, and subsequently mythic, watering hole for a largely twenty-something, social media-friendly, expat community of artists. The immersive pictorial effect of the Asisi panorama, in conjunction with 80 antique sculptures and new multimedia visualisations of the Pergamon Altar in the approximately 1000 square metre large exhibition setting, results in a unique and future-oriented overall concept to bring the appearance of the ancient metropolis of Pergamon back to life.After their graduation from Cooper Union in New York, Henkel and Pitegoff moved to Berlin and opened Times bar (2011-12) with fellow American artist Lindsey Lawson. Since Spring/Summer 2018, highlights from the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the completely reworked panorama of Yadegar Asisi have been presented here. ![]() The Panorama” by Yadegar Asisi allows visitors to experience the Pergamon Altar in its original form on the Acropolis. The supplementary, temporary exhibition building opposite the Museum Island “Pergamon museum. These include the north wing and the middle wing the monumental Pergamon Altar. Various rooms of the museum will remain inaccessible until 2025 due to renovation work. Explore the origins and history of these precious pieces and also learn details about the current work with the carpets. They bear sensual witness to the continuous, extensive cultural exchange between European countries and the Near and Middle East. Auguststrasse 69, Berlin, Germany, +49 30 2434590 The Berlinische Galerie Located in Kreuzberg, the Berlinische Galerie is a tribute to modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin. Carpets from the Islamic world have been of great importance to European cultural history for many centuries. The newly designed exhibition halls display colourful carpets from Islamic cultures, including some of the oldest examples ever made. Reopening of the Carpet Rooms in the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamonmuseum Pergamonmuseum Berlin © SMB, Foto: Becker Dream and Trauma ![]()
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