{"id":1543,"date":"2009-10-25T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T11:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/de\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2009-10-25T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T11:17:52","slug":"9-11-11-9-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"9\/11-11\/9 New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1544\" title=\"911119\" src=\"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/911119.jpg\" alt=\"911119\" width=\"492\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/911119.jpg 492w, http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/911119-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n        <div class=\"video-container\">\n        <iframe src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/6543992?\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Artist Exchange International and Marymount Manhattan College present<br \/>\n\u201c11\/9-9\/11\u201d (2 November -1 December 2009), an exhibition in the Hewitt Art<br \/>\ngalleries of Marymount Manhattan College (221 East 71st Street, New York,<br \/>\nNY, 10021). The exhibition opens to the public on 2 November (6:00-8:00<br \/>\npm). Marymount will host a panel discussion with the artists, led by the<br \/>\nart critic and curator Lilly Wei, on 3 November, 6:30-8:00 pm, in the<br \/>\nRegina Peruggi Room (2nd floor of Main).<br \/>\n\u201c11\/9-9\/11\u201d both juxtaposes and likens the fall of the Berlin Wall (on 9<br \/>\nNovember 1989) and the destruction of the World Trade Center (on 11<br \/>\nSeptember 2001). The presentation of work at Marymount corresponds with<br \/>\nthe twentieth anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, and<br \/>\nshowcases work by six Berlin artists who have been inspired by that<br \/>\nlandmark event.<br \/>\n\u201c11\/9-9\/11\u201d is the first of two exhibitions on this theme.\u00a0 The second<br \/>\nwill take place in April 2010 at the Galerie am Meer in Berlin, and will<br \/>\nfeature five American artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c11\/9-9\/11\u201d contains work by the following German artists:<br \/>\nLilly Grote and Blonay Fuchs are from the former West Berlin. Grote works<br \/>\nwith boxes allowing us to peer into small isolated worlds, not unlike the<br \/>\nformerly divided Berlin. In Beta, a post 1989 work, a tightrope walker<br \/>\ncrosses the cosmos; we feel on the one hand exhilarated and on the other<br \/>\nprecarious and exposed. In a series of 8 works on paper, Fuchs shows us<br \/>\nfantasies of New York and Berlin. Highly expressive and abstracted imagery<br \/>\nreproduce the energy of both cities and call to our attention the<br \/>\nsimilarities between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Ulla Walter and Michael Arantes M\u00fcller are from former East Berlin.<br \/>\nWalter\u2019s Last Exit is an oppressive image of the last escape, the impact<br \/>\nthat major structures, like the Berlin Wall or the World Trade Center have<br \/>\non the world.\u00a0 Last Exit forces us to come face to face with the wall, but<br \/>\nthen enables us to pass through it.\u00a0 M\u00fcller\u2019s Flydream creates a<br \/>\nchronological story using a progression of media \u2013 from expressive<br \/>\ncharcoal (before the fall) to hard, violent etchings (during) and then<br \/>\nfinally opening out to woodblock (after) portraying a more colorful,<br \/>\nhopeful future.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Boettcher was 19 when the wall came down. He had the advantage of<br \/>\ncoming of age in an undivided Germany. His work deeply reflects the<br \/>\naftershocks of the Berlin Wall and the Twin Towers. He is able to step<br \/>\nback and look from afar, the events mythologized through his eyes in a<br \/>\ncomic book style video.<\/p>\n<p>The fall of the Berlin Wall not only established the end of the socialist<br \/>\nexperiment in eastern Germany it also gave rise to a full range of<br \/>\nevolutionary changes throughout Europe. The exuberance of the destruction<br \/>\nof the Wall led to the reunification of Germany and to an era of renewed<br \/>\nhope and optimism. The unexpected and dramatic destruction of the World<br \/>\nTrade Center, however, suspended this sense of global optimism.<br \/>\nUltimately, both Berlin and New York became the epicenters of seismic<br \/>\ncultural and political transformations. The works of art in \u201c11\/9-9\/11\u201d<br \/>\nand those in the kindred Berlin exhibition are intended to generate<br \/>\nconversations about the state of the two cities today and how two events<br \/>\nthat permanently marked their histories resonate with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,79,181,388,666],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-15","tag-berlin","tag-exhibition","tag-new-york","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visualberlin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}