Charlotte Desaga
A River of Time, a Warehouse of Cultures
Encountering 5 objects of Rhinelandian origin at a visit to the new V&A East Storehouse, London – and a quiet question mark. By Charlotte Desaga
In the East London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a new institution is reimagining the very soul of the museum. The V&A East Storehouse, built within the former London 2012 Olympics Media Centre, represents a radical departure from traditional museum practice. Part of the Victoria and Albert Museum – Britain’s world-renowned weiterlesen
Charlotte Desaga
„Weather is a third to place and time“
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Poetry of Landscape by Charlotte Desaga. Little Sparta, Stonypath, Dunsyre, Scottland & Ian Hamilton Finlay Park, Grevenbroich, Germany
In the quiet hills of South Lanarkshire, Scotland, an artistic vision unfolds in a garden known for its intellectual charge. This is Little Sparta, the life’s work of Ian Hamilton Finlay.
The Scottish artist began his career as a poet and became known in the 1960s for pioneering concrete poetry in Britain. His early weiterlesen
Charlotte Desaga
Artblog Cologne in Prag II
„Geschichte ist nur der Teil des Mythos, den ihr zu verstehen glaubt und in Worte fassen könnt,“ erklärt der Dinosaurier in András Cséfalvay’s Videodialog „Compsognation“ (2013).
Dass uns eine – vergleichsweise ohnehin nur kurze – Zeit des Weltgeschehens erst durch Sprache zugänglich wird, muss diesem frühzeitlichen Wesen wohl als sehr unerfahren erscheinen. „Compsognation“ ist zur Zeit in der Ausstellung „Past-Present-Past“ in der Eingangshalle der Karlin Studios, einem Offspace in einer ehemaligen Fabrik in Prags weiterlesen
