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ZEICHEN DES WANDELS – photographs 1981- 2003 by Hans Martin Sewcz         Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Ruhrstraße 6, 10709 Berlin, 2014


THE FILM PROGRAM TO THE EXHIBITION “OF ART AND POLITICS: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE DEUTSCHE “BUNDESTAG” IN THE CABINET OF THE ART-SPACE FROM FEBRUARY 20th UNTIL MAY 12th, 2008

Attention: Entry for the film showings is free but seating is limited. If the demand exceeds our capacity, we will make the effort to show the film again at a later date.  More information about these repeat dates can be found on our homepage: www.kunst-im-bundestag.de 

FILM/PHOTO INSTALLATIONS DURING OPENING HOURS (NONSTOP)
FEBRUARY 19th- MARCH 2nd, 2008

Hans Martin Sewcz: FISH NIGHT MELODY@ Foundation STARKE

AD-LIBBED FROM CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN, (Moving Painting, 1995, 5:24 min)

Since the development of flat screens there is a new medium. Film sequences can now be shown on walls beside paintings, prints, etc.  A panel has learned to walk.  “Fish Night Melody” is an adaptation of the poem of the same name.  The people in the video move their lips silently to the two-line poem from Christian Morgenstern.  The rules: half-circle= round mouth, horizontal line= straight mouth. The images originated in 1995 during an opening from the Foundation Starke, where the concept artist Hans Martin Sewcz asked the guests to mimic an interpretation of the poem in front of a camera. Among them are Jörg Starke and author Nicolaus Sombart.

Hans Martin Sewcz:

AESTHETICS NOW: EVERYTHING STARTS WITH AESTHETICS

(Vid Potpourri, 45 min.)

The video potpourri is made up of short articles about the different subjects of the photographer and concept artist, Hans Martin Sewcz as well as his creative experimental examination of the media, film.  In the 1970s, during his studies at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, he documented the dilapidated streets of Leipzig and East-Berlin and portrayed the youth and artists of the cities. In the 1980s he dealt with the product culture of the GDR.  He then experienced the fall of the wall as a west Berliner and collected the GDR product packaging.  Installations and art-on-site projects followed. Since the 1990s he records the present and the attitude of life as film: street scenes, techno parades, (artist) portraits, “ready founds”, autobiography …

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“Kunst & Politik”, exhibition participation at the “Galerie im Alten Rathaus”, Neustraße 2, D-54516 Wittlich, until january 31th, 2015

Foto: Helmut Thewalk

photo: Helmut Thewalk, Wittlich 2014

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