VIVA LA VIDA
Das Orakel der Farbschüttung
Es ist das Magische an der Kunst was mich fasziniert:
Dabei schütte ich Farbe mit Wasser auf das Weiß zu einem Orakel - und schon ist eine Atmosphere entstanden, die mich von den Alltagshandlungen befreit - hinein in magische Welten der Linien und Formen.
- Viva we live - more than ever - now and here!
Die Sängerin Chavela Vargas mit Frida Kahlo, treffen auf die Künstlerinnen Marianne Pitzen, Biggi Slongo und Daniela Flörsheim. Entfaltung und das kurze aber prächtige Leben des Monarch Schmetterlings steht metaphorisch hier für
die Ankunft Abermillionen Schmetterlinge in México: Sie treffen synchron zum Todestag „Dia de los Muertos“ ein, der um den 2. November stattfindet. Eine Verwandlung, die wie ein Wunder auf die Menschen wirkt und sie im Alter und über den Tod hinweg tröstet. Sie bringen die ausgewanderten Seelen aus Mexiko über die Grenzen hinweg in Kunst, Musik, Lieder, Farben und in Fächertänzen zurück als Anregung zur Selbstreflexion.
Life does not only appear young as in Michelangelo's David carved in marble; it also finds metaphors of eternal youth and harmony with itself in art, music and literature.
The search for harmony and perfection embarks on wanderings into the conquest of the physical.
Growing old is not a matter of course - despite some painful traces, it is a privilege. Without borders, numbers, and figures, threads of life weave themselves into patterns of a complete, colorful carpet.
Omara Portuondo
In Rhythmen vereinen, inspirieren und beflügeln die Lieder von Omaran Portuando mit ihrem 92 Jahren die Menschen durch Ihren ungebrochenen Gesang.
Alma con Alas
100 mal 70 cm Horzontal
watercolors on handmade paper
Stages of life are not delineated in time - they merge into each other without thresholds. Life is a contemplation; the patterns of life only result in a great whole, an overall view, through death.
The completeness of life, however, can only be reproduced in art.
In every child lives the wise man, and in the old man, a child.
It begins with birth and ends in the question of eternal life. With the years gained, the question of a happy and successful life arises.
The phases of life are described in Kurdish as "running-learning-loving-laughing-living." A slightly different view of aging from an intercultural perspective is more necessary today than ever. We grow old and colorful.
Growing old begins in the mind; staying young does too.
The dream of eternal youth is the subject of art. The question of aging is also the question of a better life.
If life were not to be described in terms of time or being old, but through artistically demanding achievements, then famous women artists, such as Käthe Kollwitz who created the 'Pieta' at the age of seventy, and Louise Bourgeoise who made the installation 'Maman' at the age of eighty-eight, have inspired people worldwide. Just how much creativity and artistic potential there is in the later years is shown by artists such as Niki de Saint Phalle, Hana Hösch, Meret Oppenheim, Lee Krasner, to name but a few.
Yilmaz Holtz-Ersahin
Head of the Mannheim City Library and lecturer in media and cultural studies at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf