Berlin Biennale 2014: Dahlem Museums
Museum Center of the National Museums in Berlin in the southwestern district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. For the first time a venue of the Berlin Biennale, incl. works by 28 participants.
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Sounds Like Isolation to Me. n/d
Installation
(Detail)
A museographical essay about the struggle between the social dimension of avant-garde thinking and the romantic idea of isolation as a space for creativity. It considers the story of Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997), a US-born Mexican-naturalized composer who immigrated in 1940, fearing possible harassment because of his leftist political views. He spent most of his time inside his studio in Mexico City, which was designed by Juan O’Gorman, one of Mexico’s renowned modernist architects. There he lived in relative isolation, and had little contact with other avant-garde musicians of the twentieth century.
(From the Short Guide)
(The man on the photo is not Mario García Torres himself, but his colleague Anri Sala)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Museum Center of the National Museums in Berlin in the southwestern district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. For the first time a venue of the Berlin Biennale, incl. works by 28 participants.