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  • sound of the day 7 / untitled / # ffff00

     

     

     

     

     

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  • A haiku by Tomas Tranströmer

    ambient piano  1:44  [Wolfgang Peter Menzel]

    Translation from Swedish by Wolfgang Peter Menzel

  • from Gorey (GAFF) to Waterford ⎡http://www.somacontemporary.com/ ⎦

    The exhibition at GAFF will move to Waterford  and the Soma Gallery ⎡http://www.somacontemporary.com/ ⎦.

    the listening station with OUT OF SILENCE at GAFF / Gorey / Ireland


  • ANGELS IN THE OCEAN

    About An installation from 1997, a work by Ernst Barlach 1927 and the Podalida Island.This day I entered the Red Cross Store to look at and possibly buy some antiquarian book interesting me. In Baumgart`s Short History Of Art  I saw a picture of the German artist Ernst Barlach,Monument For The Fallen (during the first WW), called The Floating with a face like the well known artist colleague Käthe Kollwitz.The Floating exists in at least two copies – the original has been smelt down by the German fascist regime – one i Cologne,in the Antoniter Church and the other in the church in Güstrow, some miles south of Rostock.

    I was immediately stroked by the picture, remembering my own work, an installation, Shipwreck, in Linköping`s Skäggetorp Church in 1997, some months after  the ferry  catastrophe with the Swedish Estonia with many hundreds of dead.My installation consisted of two boats and an angel too, floating even her, or him. Today I can draw some lines of meaning between, and i can see a kind of texture or rhizome: parts of German history, my father´s death on board of a submarine as well as the deterritorialization of my mind seeking for “something” back in history, maybe an angel. The angel and the grief moved to another place as the angel himself. The place where all this happened I call Podalida, there is evidence and there is denying of evidence, connections, existence and death while the ocean around is rushing. Why does my angel ( 50 years after Barlach`s work which I didn´t knew ) appear as a diver ?

      From Fritz Baumgart, Short Art History, DuMont, Cologne:
      Ernst Barlach / Momument For The Fallen during WW I, called  The Floating, 1927

    Page from the catalogue AURA showing the Shipwreck installation ↓

  • sound of the day / 6 – 2011 / RIOT

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  • vision forum 2011 / 28 sept

    Presentation of my work at vision forum autumn 2011 at the

    County Museum Linköping

    sketch for FLIP CHART SHOW ( ART AS IDEA ) at Jr Konsthallen 2006

    picture by Per Hüttner

  • vision forum 2011 / Norrköping / Linköping / Sweden

       Vision Forum  is proud to announce its third international workshop with KSM in Norrköping and Linköping September 27-28, 2011. It is a packed program with participants from all over the world that will meet local players for inspiration and creation.This year’s meeting focuses on two main topics: What does artistic research imply and how does knowledge function in the artistic field? We will look at these questions with specific emphasis on the audience and audience participation.

    We are very happy to develop the established collaborations in Norrköping and pleased to travel to Linköping to meet new institutions to work with. Below you will find a detailed program (subject to change).

    We all look forward to welcoming you!

    TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27 – Norrköping

    9.30-12 (Konstmuseet – the Art Museum)

    * Introduction and Welcome – Per Hüttner, Mattias Åkesson, Anna Berglind and Kosta Economou.
    * A newly produced video by Li Xiaofei, New York.
    * Australian artist duo A Constructed World talk about their artistic practice and their project Speech and What Archive.
    * Parisian curator Géraldine Longueville talks about the preparations for the project ‘L’entremet’that will take place on Capri in spring 2012..
    * Filmmaker Jesper Frilund talks about the newly filmed project ‘Effektivia’.

    12-13 Lunch

    13-17 (Arbetets Museum)
    * London-based artists Vanda Playford and Lisa Skuret will make a workshop based on the experiences from the project London Houses.
    * Henrik Ferdfelt from Södertörns högskola will make a workshop about creativity and economy.

    20.00 Program at Verkstad:

    Installations/performance/music/presentations by Li Xiaofei, Linnea Hansander, Jonathan Lewald and Ebba och Cerefie.

    SEPTEMBER 28 – Linköping

    9-10 (Train Norrköping-Linköping)
    * Isabel Löfgren will create an event that connects to the project ‘Ö’ – a travelling experience.

    (10-12 Länsmuseet i Linköping)
    * Lena Wiklund, regional consultant for visual arts in Östergötland presents her work.
    * Presentation by Wolfgang Peter Menzel, artist

    12-13 Lunch

    (13-14.30 Passagen, Linköping)
    * Zhang Guangjuan will show her exhibition.
    * Discussions and conclusions

    The program has been realized in collaboration with KSM at Linköpings Universitet and with kind support from Östsam.

    For more information and press images contact Moa Hannerz Simå: verkstadkonst (at)gmail.com, or Per Hüttner, pah(at)swipnet.se.

  • C L O U D S

     acrylics on canvas / 92 x 48 / 2011 / Menzel ©

  • sound of the day / 6 / 2011

    SQUASHED CHEWING GUM AND BIRD  

    Venetian Despair Variation 4:19

  • 9/11 and after …

    … in september 2001 I started painting again caused by a private crisis. At that same time the terrible attack made me and all people around nearly speechless.  One was at the same place as before but reality and it´s perception turned into a kaleidoscopical way. During this time I made these paintings.

    … and you can trust Bruce Willis / oil on wood / 2001 / © Wolfgang Peter Menzel

    nine eleven at home / acrylics on canvas / 2001 / © Wolfgang Peter Menzel

    INDEPENDENCE DAY / acrylics on canvas / 2001 / © Wolfgang Peter Menzel

    The Trophy (Slobodan Milosevic captured ) / acrylics on canvas / 2002 / © Wolfgang Peter Menzel