Metamorphosis
Comparison between inspiration and exhibit
1983 – East and West arm for war. Europe and Germany are at the centre of attention.
2024 – East and West arm for war. Wolf’s question is still topical; I find a clue in her Cassandra character and pursue it. Her observations, her doubts about her own, her questions to the men, the fathers who kill each other. As different as the times and circumstances are today, so urgent is the reflection on the fatal consequences of what has been (un)learnt.
A series of paintings emerges. The narrative is so densely filled with further questions that it is difficult to keep track of the traces. But one keyword, one place is repeated again and again:
Mount Ida, a third place beyond the binary logic of the Trojan War, is refuge, consolation, utopia for Cassandra.
„When I close my eyes, I see the images. The Idaberg in changing light. [...] It was the world to us, no landscape could be more beautiful. [...] And our unbound existence, a new joy every new day. The citadel did not reach this far. They could not fight the enemy and us at the same time. [...] We lived in poverty ourselves. We sang a lot, I remember. We talked a lot in the evenings around the fire in Arisbe's cave [...] We never stopped learning. [...] It became a festival of touch, where we touched and got to know the other, the others, of our own accord. We were frail. Since our time was limited, we couldn't waste it on trivial matters. So we went, playfully, as if we had all the time in the world, towards the most important thing, towards each other.“
Mount Ida, 160 x 100 cm, Mixed media on canvas
About the exhibition
In May 2024, the Arbeitskreis Spandauer Künstler e.V. organised an exhibition titled Metamorphosis – Comparison between inspiration and exhibit. Berlin creatives were asked to interpret existing works and transform them into new art. Based on existing works of art, comparative works with a recognisably identical essence were to be created. A jury chaired by Dr Carola Brückner selected 40 works from the applications, which will be exhibited at the Spandau Citadel from 18 to 20 October 2024.