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The Flight to Egypt. Father and son Tiepolo vary a theme.
Not translated: Die Staatsgalerie Stuttgart besitzt ein relativ kleines Bild von Giambattista Tiepolo: „Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten“. Für einen ausgezeichneten Hof- und Freskomaler ist die Größe von nur 55,5 x 41,5 cm tatsächlich ungewöhnlich, zumal es sich hier nicht um einen Bozzetto, einen Fresko-Entwurf handelt, sondern um eins von vier überlieferten Gemälden […]
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CS-Report: Morning conference at The Guardian with Alan Rusbridger , London, 2002
Impressions of a morning conference in the editorial office of The Guardian with editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger. The British journal shook the foundations of Rupert Murdoch´s News Corporation by uncovering the phone-hacking scandal and was named newspaper of the year at the 2011 Press Awards for its partnership with WikiLeaks.
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Ikonolog: Tree (pencil on paper, digital collage, 2007/08)
The sequence of images from Matthias Reinhold’s “Ikonolog” (www.ikonolog.de) represents the rhizomatic structural idea of his drawing project, which aims for infinite permeability and ramification. Aperspectival, organismic spatial experiences and observations of vegetative growth are poetically combined here with analytical fields of technical construction and explosion graphics, i.e. with ways of drawing that expose functional […]
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CS: Neurological Research Laboratories: Monkey Experiments Bremen , University of Bremen; September 2003
The dispute over animal experiments between the Bremen Senate and the university is escalating. Because they are “ethically not justified”, the Bremen Senate intends to definitively ban brain researcher Andreas Kreiter from his controversial monkey experiments at Bremen University; the university, on the other hand, insists on the freedom of research and wants to take […]
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Van Goghs Favorites IV: Paul Renouard, the Zola of Drawing
“There is life in every little pencil stroke.” Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Nuenen, 4 or 5 May 1885 “When I think how he rose to such a height by working from the very beginning from nature, without imitating others, and how he is none the less in harmony with the […]