Paul Klee
Man are my heels sore!
I just came back from Berlin and I loved it. The cloudless, sunny days must have helped because it wasn't just me -- I had lots of competition sucking up to gallery owners trying to get some summer job there. Its a pretty relaxed city, with an alternative feel and LOTS to do.
We walked all day and sometimes into the night and probably didn't touch a fifth of the museums and galleries there. We were soooo lucky with the weather, which made the trip absolutely wonderful compared to Venice.
It was also better organized and the hotel which was chosen was in a great location, a few blocks from CheckPoint Charlie, which was the crossing point between east and west Berlin for the allied forces.
There's an old guard house there with murals showing the history if the wall and fake guards who will talk to you through a megaphone as you pass by. There is very little of the wall left but through-out the city you can see a line on the ground made of little cobble stones showing you where it once stood.
The school organized a bus tour on our first day which gave us an idea of the city. From then on, it was just visiting museum after museum, gallery after gallery. We made the most of the Berlin Biennale and saw some great classics at the Neue Nationalgalerie which had some icons of modern art. Since it was warm, I got to wear sandals most of the time and thank goodness I took them because most people's feet were cooked by the end of each day.
We also tried to go out to some different parts of Berlin, but didn't have that much time. I did visit places like Kreutzberg, which has an alternative history and Hackischer Markt, which is a bit like Covent Garden, but somehow more relaxed and sleeker. There are even restaurants there with tiki-lights and those swinging cradle chairs... everything very relaxed.
One afternoon after a long day went to have a coffee and cake at famous chocolatiers Fassbinder and Rausch. It was sooooo good. But we were all in a little of a chocolate daze for the rest of the night. This is me enjoying my hot CHOCOLATE and CHOCOLATE and orange cake thingy. The water is just for show.
One part of the Biennale was this Sculpture Garden, which was supposed to be sort of experimental and edgy. They placed a few sculptures all over what was an overgrown wilderness of vacant lots and called it a sculpture garden. To get to some of these sculptures you needed a map and had to wade through some high grass, garbage and left over construction material. Most of the time it was difficult to see what was art and was what was garbage. Which was actually kind of cool. So cool, I decided to make my own art!
This is Artist Sandy with her piece in the 2008 Berlin Biennale Scupture Garden See the suffering on my face!!!
My piece was relating to the fertility of the biennale (thus phallic stick coming from Biennale map) leading to the understanding and flow of sweetness (thus broken water bottle with discarded sweetener packet). It all makes sense man!
We also got to interact with other important art. Yes these are holes in the ground there on the right.
We did also get to see some wonderful art. Paul Klee, Picasso, Anselm Kiefers, all of the Neuenationalgallerie... there was some great stuff.
I'll just leave you with some photos or else I'll take another few days to write the rest of this!
I have so much work to do in the next 2 weeks! My final project is due and next week we have an exam. Plus I'm going out on dates, going to see Seu Jorge with friends and several B-day parties! Argh!
So write more next time!
Anselm Kiefer - one of my favorites apart from Klee
Florence, me and Richi at another crazy sculpture garden installation
More ummm... art that was difficult to understand. Those chairs were part of it. You can tell everyone looks very confused.
Trying to imitate Victoria driving her horses on top of the Brandenburg Gate, but my friend just didn't catch on and cut her out so now it just looks like I'm doing the hula-hula or something. Completely retarded. Nice sun flare though.
In the back alleys of Berlin going to underground bars that had aliens in aquariums!
Lots of standing around... but at least the sun was delicious.
Paul Klee
Man are my heels sore!
One afternoon after a long day went to have a coffee and cake at famous chocolatiers Fassbinder and Rausch. It was sooooo good. But we were all in a little of a chocolate daze for the rest of the night. This is me enjoying my hot CHOCOLATE and CHOCOLATE and orange cake thingy. The water is just for show.
This is Artist Sandy with her piece in the 2008 Berlin Biennale Scupture Garden See the suffering on my face!!!
Anselm Kiefer - one of my favorites apart from Klee
Florence, me and Richi at another crazy sculpture garden installation
More ummm... art that was difficult to understand. Those chairs were part of it. You can tell everyone looks very confused.
Trying to imitate Victoria driving her horses on top of the Brandenburg Gate, but my friend just didn't catch on and cut her out so now it just looks like I'm doing the hula-hula or something. Completely retarded. Nice sun flare though.
In the back alleys of Berlin going to underground bars that had aliens in aquariums!
