The
two Prelude exhibitions of the 5th
‘Enter into Art’ International Installations 2018-19, which
promote small-format pictures from all over the world, will be
accompanied this year by the cultural program ‘Touring the World
through Art’, in which the artists themselves are involved. There
will be a multimedia presentation with large-format pictures by
international artists, accompanied by flows of relaxing music. The
traveling exhibitions ‘Fascination of Worldwide Art and Color’ will take place on three rivers (the Rhine, Moselle and
Lahn) during the forthcoming exhibition period.
5th ‘Enter into Art’ International Installations 2018-19
Prelude exhibition in Bad Breisig: Touring the World through Art
Please see more photos and the lists of participants on our archiv website:
Opening of the prelude event in Bad Breisig 2018 |
This art event takes place from August 18th
to 29th
2018 in the cultural center ‘Kulturbahnhof’ in Bad Breisig with
103 artists from 38 countries. The video projection ‘Touring the
World through Art’ has 28 larger images and is integrated into the
exhibition. Two further images of each artist are available in
folders. In addition, the large images are available in reduced-size
reproductions (information photos), to take away for free. In the
video, artists from all over the world reflect upon the subject of
travel. The exhibition allows the audience to view a wide spectrum of
art from more than 40 countries and five continents.
The annual art
installation ‘Fascination of Worldwide Art and Color’
shows small-format images from all over the world, including
meditative aspects.
The images are arranged in ‘color zones’ for attentive viewing
and relaxation, allowing the idea of intercultural exchange to flow
in. In doing so, very different artistic techniques and styles are
presented and combined with smaller sculptures and art objects as
well as poetry and sound.
Lecture on traveling, poetry and art
In
a lecture about traveling, the travel author Gabriele Walter will
accompany the film screening in both a musical and a lyrical way. In
addition to the own
haiku lyrics and relaxation music, the lecture incorporates exquisite
poems by famous writers, in particular the German poet Rainer Maria
Rilke, who is examplary for the correlation between art and poetry.
Consequently, the film and the lecture inspires visitors to meditate
on art also in this way.
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Art, lyrics, film and relaxing music |
With his so-called ‘image poems’, the
well-traveled Rilke was a German Apollinaire and fits perfectly into
our concept of exhibitions. Our visitors
always meet this concept with very great interest.
Therefore in addition and renewed, Apollinaire’s image poems are
shown on the tables (our homage to Apollinaire see the link!), while
viewers also can read there the most beautiful travel haiku by
Walter. All poems of the event are presented in small frames, making
them look like art objects. Rilke’s poems, meanwhile, will be read
in the lecture.
When reading and listening to the poems, inner state of mind and
external reality merge into each other. On the basis of image poems,
art lovers are led also to a deeper understanding of the
international images in the exhibition. In addition, the lecture will
be accompanied with thoughts about traveling in a philosophical way.
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Kurt Ries and a visitor |
Scientific research shows that Rilke was inspired
to write numerous poems by looking at the works of Rodin, Cezanne and
the Impressionists. As Rodin’s secretary, he lived in Paris for
many years. When Rilke encountered a creative crisis, he turned
increasingly to the visual arts. Through the detour of this other
medium, he came to new impulses for his own work.
Rilke
was a poor poet, who could not afford his
own family. However, he had many patrons who funded his travels in
Europe and North Africa. Part of this exhibition is Rilke’s
wonderful poem ‘The Poet’, which draws attention to the problem
of give and take by art. It is always important for us to draw
attention to the ideal value of art which, when it comes to art’s
wide range, unfortunately is too often underestimated and not
appreciated enough.
Interplay between the arts
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Five exhibitions 2018-19 on three rivers (in the background you can see a landscape motif of William Turner - Hammerstein) |
The interrelation between art, poetry and music –
as well as the subject of travel – also play a role in our series
of articles on Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Goethe, for example, wandered along the River Lahn and his footsteps
can be retraced in the Goethe vineyard. His Italian
Journey remains a trigger for the
‘Grand Tour’ or travel to the south.