Emilio Vedova. Absurdes Berliner Tagebuch ’64
In the organizer's words:
The installation "Absurd Berlin Diary '64" by the Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919-2006) was created in 1964 as part of a grant from the US Ford Foundation. It enabled the artist to live and work in West Berlin for a year. The work was executed in the former studio of the National Socialist sculptor Arno Breker, which today houses the Kunsthaus Dahlem. The work was shown at documenta III in Kassel in the same year.
The work consists of asymmetrically sawn wooden panels, painted on both sides, which are connected with iron hinges to form movable constructions. Vedova called the freely positioned pictorial elements, which can only be grasped by walking around them, "Plurimi" (multiple structures). With the development of the plurimi, Vedova freed painting from the conventional form of the panel painting. The Berlin Plurimi were created as a reaction to the divided city, which Vedova experienced as a "clash of contradictory situations".
The eight-meter-high installation, which is one of Vedova's major works, is unique in its complexity and monumentality within his oeuvre. In 2002, the artist decided to donate the work to the Berlinische Galerie for the new building in Alte Jakobstraße.
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Day ticket €12 Reduced €7 Happy Wednesday: Reduced admission (€7) for everyone on every 1st Wednesday of the month Free admission up to 18 years Free admission for refugees Reduced admission for holders of a disabled pass + free admission for a recognized accompanying person
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