PPAC: Prekmurje 2. – Hundertwasser and Hasegawa

My apologies for this post, since this art was not really public. The exhibition was available in exchange for a small fee, and it was not visible from the street. Still, the vibrancy hopefully makes up for it.

Here, let me show you. This is a card that I bought at this exhibition. I took these photos two days ago in our yard especially for this post.

Only now I turned it around and read the title: “Irinaland over the Balkans”, 1969. I wasn’t even born yet.

When my friend – our host during this 2019 day trip to the Pannonian, flat, NE part of Slovenia – had asked me what I’d like to see, my first wish was: Hundertwasser.

I suppose the late Austrian visual artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser is a divider of public opinion. Some love him, others hate him, and for me he is everything that is good in art. He’s got colours, shapes, message, vision, dreamlike quirkiness, and he officially changed his name from Stowasser upon learning that “sto” in several Slavic languages, including Slovenian, means “hundred”. So he became “one hundred waters”. How cool is that?

I learned of him during a particular period in the life of my family when father was away on business, that is during the six years or so when he was living in Vienna as the national TV correspondent. I visited him often and we always had much fun. The Hundertwasserhaus was a beloved spot, and the artist’s manifest on the uneven floor about how flat floor fits engines, not human beings, was easily recognisable as truth.

So when I learned that the Lendava Castle hosted a temporary exhibition of his and Shoichi Hasegawa’s works entitled “East and West”, I knew I wished to see it. And so I did, immediately after the welder artist Robert Jurak’s lean cows and awesome fish in front of the castle from my last week’s post.

Let’s enter the castle and have a look. Next week we will remain inside for the permanent collection of historic artefacts. I didn’t wish to cram it all in one post. Or Sandy would never finish it. Ha.

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  The path to the castle was not steep but see the featured photo in my yesterday’s post. I wore the same shoes.

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  “Orient & Okzident”.

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  This kind of houses Hundertwasser built.

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  The quote will be translated soon.

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  These greens fulfil my inner need.

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  Here you go: “The spiral is a symbol of life and death. The spiral lies at that very point where inanimate matter is transformed into life.”

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  I like the one below.

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  The set-up was quite conservative but stylish.

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  Shoichi Hasegawa is a contemporary artist from Japan.

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  The importance of glossy floor.

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  The exhibition was not particularly vast.

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  Uneven floor of a bowl.

For Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC) hosted by Marsha at Always Write

This day in my blogging history

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  2016: Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. ~Jack Kerouac

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  2017: The garden that I know the longest with two tree quotes.

  A drawing of a tree shows, not a tree, but a tree-being-looked-at.
  ~John Berger

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  2018: The first abandoned property hunt in the family in which we tried hard not to find a dead body.

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  2019: Pasta chic is a thing. Curves are a war to maintain.