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Wilhelm Genazino

    January 22, 1943 – December 12, 2018

    Wilhelm Genazino was a German journalist and author whose work delves into the peculiarities of everyday life. He masterfully captured the absurdities of modern existence with a light touch and an ironic distance. Genazino's writing is characterized by its keen insight into the human psyche and social commentary. His distinctive narrative style offers a unique perspective on contemporary life.

    Wilhelm Genazino
    Die Tugend, die Trauer, das Warten, die Komik
    Istanbul
    Der Fleck, die Jacke, die Zimmer, der Schmerz
    Yong you tai duo ai qing de nan ren
    Besser scheitern
    Georges Seurat - figure in space
    • 2013

      Besser scheitern

      • 104 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      „Wieder versuchen. Wieder scheitern. Besser scheitern“. Gemäß des Beckettschen Credos präsentiert der Katalog Video- und Filmarbeiten von den 1960er Jahren bis heute. 17 international bekannte Künstlerinnen und Künstler gehen dem komplexen Phänomen des Scheiterns nach: Spielerisch, lustvoll, tragisch, komisch, trauernd, überraschend. In der Kunst ist das Scheitern als nötiges Wagnis, als Form des Experiments, schon immer eng mit dem künstlerischen Schaffensprozess verbunden gewesen. Die Beschäftigung mit dem Unvermögen und das sich in der permanenten Wiederholung artikulierende, sisyphosartige Abarbeiten an den Absurditäten des Lebens hat für Künstlerinnen und Künstler bis heute nicht an Attraktivität verloren – im Gegenteil: Die Erfahrung des Scheiterns erweist sich als eine grundsätzliche Fragestellung der Kunstpraxis heute.

      Besser scheitern
    • 2009

      Georges Seurat - figure in space

      • 151 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Known as "the notary" by his contemporaries for his very proper disposition, Georges Seurat (1859-1891), was nonetheless a trailblazing artist, who devised mesmerizing effects in paint, creating what Museum of Modern Art, New York director Alfred Barr described as a "strange, almost breathless poise." Seurat's most famous painting, "La Grande Jatte" (1884), exemplifies the airy suspension of which "Pointillism" (as his style of painting-by-dabs was named) is uniquely capable, a sensation well suited to evoking in paint the sedate pace of Paris' new leisure class. For Seurat, Pointillism was also a way to attain for painting the mathematically explicable harmony of "Art is Harmony. Harmony is the analogy of the contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, considered according to their dominance and under the influence of light, in gay, calm or sad combinations," he declared in a letter to a friend. Seurat's style lent itself especially well to the portrayal of figures in space, and the endowing of those figures with volume and atmosphere. No other visual theme so well illustrates the tremendous innovations in Seurat's paintings and drawings as this handling of the figure, a theme which is at the heart of this new appraisal.

      Georges Seurat - figure in space