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Neue Nationalgalerie
31 October 2008 - 8 February 2009

"Paul Klee, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was the creator of a highly individual yet at once universal pictorial language. As early as 1901, he knew that he wanted to "become a good artist." And by 1906 he noted in his diary: "All will be Klee." In strategic pursuit of these aims, in 1911 Klee began to meticulously chronicle his works in a catalogue. By the time he died, this was to contain over 9000 items.

The Nationalgalerie has now dedicated a major exhibition to Paul Klee, inviting you to embark on a journey through the fascinating Klee Universe. Embracing all stages of his creative development, the exhibition brings to life the visionary-poetic world of Klee's art in all its thematic facets, illuminating the unique way in which the artist fused the abstract and the figurative.

A central room of the exhibition looks at the analysis of Paul Klee's relationship with ten of the most important artists of his time, among them Ensor, van Gogh, Kubin, Kandinsky, Marc, and Picasso. In the surrounding exhibition space, ‘The Klee Universe' unfolds. In the manner of a Baroque emblem book, the exhibition covers the aspects of life which Klee, in his capacity as the encyclopaedist of an entire cosmos, chose to capture in his art. Klee's universe is centered around the human individual. Birth, childhood and youth are as much part of this as Eros and the world of mothers and fathers. Sections on interiors and architecture take a look at forms and objects created by man; while nature appears in images of plants, animals, and landscapes. Culture is expressed in music, theatre, script, and religion. Finally, dark and destructive forces appear in the shape of war, fear, and death. Klee's cosmos proves a universal cycle of ideas and images, an Orbis Pictus, through which the artist seeks to grasp, interpret and encrypt the world all at the same time.

With ‘The Klee Universe', comprising some 250 works, the Nationalgalerie undertakes the first comprehensive Klee retrospective in Berlin since the exhibition of his work at the Kronprinzenpalais exactly 85 years ago."

T.J. Demos on contemporary art and political crisis...



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"T.J. Demos is a writer, critic and lecturer in the department of history of art at University College London. His most recent book is The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). He is currently investigating the ways in which artists operate in the emerging global co-existence of political sovereignty and statelessness, and the relationship of contemporary art to the experience of social dislocation and political crisis. In the second critical debate around the themes of the Tate Triennial, T.J. Demos will talk about exile and contemporary art in the context of 'Altermodern'."

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New street art from Sweden via Wooster Collective...

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Okwui Enwezor on transnational postcolonialism, Dante, modernity...



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"In a lecture launching the Tate Triennial Prologues and opening up debate around the themes of the exhibition, Okwui Enwezor will make his response to exhibition curator Nicolas Bourriaud’s definition of the new 'modern' : ‘altermodern’. Nigerian-born Enwezor is a curator, critic and poet. He is currently Senior Vice President and Dean of Cademic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute and was Artistic Director of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany, in 2002. The session will be chaired by London-based writer, curator and artist JJ Charlesworth."

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The United States versus Critical Art Ensemble! Since the FBI has dropped all charges, Steve Kurtz can talk. See above video interview with Kurtz and below link to an article covering the controversy.

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Situationism. Neoism. Football. Stewart Home elaborates...

Think of England: Black Audio Film Collective's 'Handsworth Songs' for the weekend...

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The statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pictured on the left was a little, well, "confrontational" and communist looking (??) for the U.S. Commission On Fine Arts, which approves monuments on the National Mall in Washington DC. So the Chinese sculptor who carved the 28-foot memorial gave the civil rights leader a face lift, softening his brow and turning up his lips "to resemble the hint of a smile," in the words of AP. Now tourists will be spared the apparently undesirable site of an angry-looking black men, and the commissioners indicated yesterday they are happy. The foundation responsible for making the statue refused to release a before/after picture, but Rick McKay of Cox managed to snap the above photo, which ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [AP]

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Link to video of John Akomfrah of Black Audio Film Collective and Kodwo Eshun in conversation...

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Edward Dimendberg interviews artist, photographer and writer Allan Sekula...

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A bit of Fluxus because it's almost Friday! Those crazy guys...

TJ Demos ARTFORUM article on the work of Berlin based artist Hito Steyerl...

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Link to transversal web journal special issue on Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria! articles available in English, French & German as you like it...



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Improv Everywhere Berlin has 80 members so watch out for an Undercover Mission near you! Also there is a world freeze being planned for April 1 at 6pm our time for 5 min. Anyone up for setting up a bookshop group to freeze somewhere near the shop. Lets talk. WORLD FREEZE We are planning a Freeze (if enough people are interested) at the Marheineke Markt Halle at 6pm for 5 min. We would meet at 5.30 at the bookshop and go over. Let us know if you can come and participate.