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Falkenhaus in Würzburg
Das Alphabet der Pirateninseln | O Alphabet das Ilhas Piratas | i l’alfabet de les Medes Pirates is how Rosario Rebello de Andrade and I call our two person exhibition in the rooms of the reading café at the civic library at Falkenhaus in Würzburg. A 9 meter-long wall installation consisting of 72 paintings done by either Rosário or me or collaboratively is forming the exhibition’s center piece. Segments of found text in German, Portuguese and Catalan literature are combined with some of the rococo ornaments (the Falkenhaus facade) freed from their original context and both our individual visual languages. „…and in the thicket of the stars everything was new.” All pieces will be up starting August 1.
There won’t be an official opening reception. Instead, there will be celebratory words by Dr. Hannelore Vogt, Catalan wine, and a concert by the Catalan singer Mariona Segarra with Band. That event will take place on October 5 at 7 pm at the Falkenhaus. In order to have free access you are asked to bring your invitation card with you. Patronage for our show, that will end on October 31, is provided by the Goethe Institut Barcelona, the Libreria Catalonia, and the German-Iberic Society and the Foreigners’ Council.
Haus zum Falken [The Falcon’s House],
the Cities Main Library, Marktplatz 9, Würzburg
Mon|Tue|Wed|Fri 10 am – 16 pm, Thur 10 am – 7 pm, Sat 10 am – 3 pmOn Würzburg’s Upper Market sits the yellow Falkenhaus with its white stucco ornaments. Between 1338 and 1406 the Dome’s priest used to live in the building. Later, in the 17th Century, the house hosted a restaurant. It was known as “The Falcon’s House”. The facade was part of an advertisement for the restaurant, attached in 1751.
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Castle in Münnerstadt
The Henneberg-Museum, in the Deutschordensschloß Castle in Münnerstadt, Germany, presents drawings, paintings and sculptures by Herbert Janouschkowetz, Angelika Summa, Norbert Kleinlein, Heinz Altscheffel, Peter Stein, Kathrin Feser und Julian Walter. The exhibition in this special location is titled Moderne im Schloß [modernity in the castle], and it will run June 28 through August 12.
On July 13 at 8 pm there will be an open air concert by Gail Gilmore in the castle’s inner courtyard.Henneberg-Museum im Deutschordensschloß, Münnerstadt
open Tue|Wed|Thur|Fri 2 – 5 pm, Sat|Sun|holidays 10 am – 5 pm
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Mercedes
Art between limousines preludes the Italian/German exhibition series titled TransForm. The 6 person show with Werner Kiesel, Irmtraud Bern-Klug, Cornelia Krug-Stührenberg, Magnus Kuhn and Roland Schaller will be in the showroom of Mercedes Benz in Würzburg. Our work, consisting of a diverse range of media and technique, will bear up its presence against the limousines. This exhibition will be opened ceremoniously Thursday night, June 14, starting at 6 pm and will have an open ending. Magnus Kuhn will perform his Tools of Horror while Werner Kiesel plays the contrabass. And excellent catering will round off the event. Visitors are are welcomed on all seven days of the week until July 15.
Mercedes Benz (enormous glass building) on Randersackerer Straße 54, Würzburg.
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Würzburg
TransForm exhibition no. 2. This exabition is an Itallian/German group show with 12 artists: Renato Galbusera, Kathrin Feser, Pino di Gennaro, Werner Kiesel, Maria Jannelli, Irmtraud Klud-Berninger, Giancarlo Lepore, Cornelia Krug-Stührenberg, Antonio Miano, Magnus Kuhn, Claudio Zanini, and Roland Schaller. The show takes place at the BBK Gallery [professional association of visual artists] located in the building of the Kulturspeicher Museum. The show will be opened on June 22 at 7 pm, welcoming eminent guests from both countries. Our collective exhibition catalogue, published in both Italian and German, will be available at the gallery. The work can be visited until Sunday, July 15. Patronage for our project was provided by Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Munich, Dante Alighieri Society, Würzburg, Goethe Institut Milan, and Fondazione Ruth, Milan.
BBK Gallery, Museum Kulturspeicher, Veitshöchheimer Straße 5, Würzburg
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Marktbreit
The 2 person show/installation/collaboration between Bronson McKinley and Kathrin Feser – called Cloud Factory – is set up in the White Tower, a renaissance tower in Marktbreit, Germany, as part of a 3-day-event called “Kitzinger County Culture Stops”. Our installation claims 4 half-circular rooms that increase in size as you climb up the tower’s narrow and steep staircase.
Room 1 is filled with approximately 700 butterflies made from laser-cut paper, floating and flying through the air.
Room 2 shows the butterflies’ wing flapping effects. They manufacture clouds in a laboratory. While flying vigorously criss-cross, the space is filling up with small, still manageable in size, but floundering clouds.
Room 3 is the room of clouds in perfection. The butterflies are reducing their speed, the clouds, large and heavy, fill the room almost entirely as they slowly move.
Room 4 shows the clouds detached and flying freely. A phased sequence of sky-photos surrounds the tower’s top level walls, interrupted by slim windows opening up a view into the current sky above Marktbreit. All photos were shot within 13 days in April 2007. Many of our friends from all across the planet shot the sky above their heads (name, location, date, and time included in the presentation) – specifically for this occasion.If you’d like to see this installation you will have to come by between April 20 and April 21. During these 3 days the butterflies in the first room, will slowly be taking off together with our visitors.
During the 16th Century Georg Ludwig v. Seinsheim induced the construction of the tower, as part of the fortifying walls surrounding Marktbreit. The White Tower used to be home of the cowherd, the midwife and the bath man.
Update: You can download the complete documentation of the show in PDF format (1.4 MB).