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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  July 23, 2019 11:45pm-12:00am CEST

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concern for the environment. and in our series underground europe we visit an eerie stop to rainy a lake in southern switzerland. dividend or the turning point that's the term that germans used to refer to the fall of the berlin wall in 1909 an event that mend the end of east germany and cleared the way for the country's reunification well for artists who had found a way to co-exist with the communist system and opened a vast new world of possibilities at the same time however it up ended everything about their creative motivation and their lives for 30 years on an exhibition in like 6 looks at the art that was produced during this turbulent period. doris siegler doesn't see herself as someone who can see into the future but what the light sic artist painted just a year before the fall of the wall did come to pass people peacefully demonstrating with candles crossing a border bridge. as nutty it was spring 980 s.
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and i explain it to myself as a type of wish fantasy for change and also one of personal change of mind is personally an awful mess. siegler is one of more than a 100 artists whose work documents the years up evil the collapse of the g.d.r. the full of the wall and re-unification a few of the paintings do express euphoria but more commonly loss and even pain. as well. it was a kind of amputation not from the g.d.r. but from friends colleagues from your life the life in the west was totally different so we came from the war next of state support into the free market soon after the fall of the war i went to frankfurt and that was like jumping into very cold water indeed. the exhibitions curator says that even today east german
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artist works value and their own role in the peaceful revolution is both politically and artistically undervalued askance which this is important to remember and this was largely forgotten after 989 that in the eighty's it was a visual artist who made creative spaces in the studios in the workshops in the private gallery spaces were a group to course where it could a stamp a shit self up your phone calls but most of the works here have never been on display in public before even experts in the field are amazed at what sunshine. it's. i don't know around 80 percent of the works here because they really did stay in the a tele a for even doctors or local view each other who i did not expect that these dormant pieces of art would see the light of day in my large time but today i realized that people just wanted to look to the future and didn't want to be reminded of the pain of the past it was a new type of person that was called for and somehow i just got left behind to the
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annoying mention to the 5. or doubt to what could be now interest in these pieces has been sparked again says he is after the fall of communism there's a treasure trove of art to rediscover. well yet another treasure trove at the tate modern in london. son has once again occupied the famous turbine hall 16 years after the last time he did it while the major retrospective of his work includes a ton of lego bricks a long corridor of dense fog and even a huge wall of reindeer moss from finland sun has been billed as a new model of artist to challenges how we interact with the world and now his fans can see the full range of his work. is an art superstar. in a museum 2000000 people trying to see it but it still remained
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a poetic experience. his monster of florence and the elements in 2008 he created waterfalls in new york a magical natural spectacle in the midst of the metropolis. his biggest show to date just opened at the tate modern what do we see in his own thoughts what's real what is perception and what is real about perception we are supposed to provide the answers ourselves. uncool shafi when i look at it i create the story in this picture i look at the picture and then i project my feelings my dreams my ideas my thoughts on to the picture and so it is sometimes a bit of work to go to the museum it's not like going to the supermarket and saying now i feel good we are here to question ourselves and to examine ourselves and to
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see ourselves within the context of the wider world to see. as many sources of inspiration the nature in iceland is one of the most important. is the house or from a high. for me means the arctic landscape extremely slow and very frightened child my parents are icelandic as a child i was often out and about in nature my father was an artist and as a painter he was out in nature in a conventional manner and as a little child i went along often only has fans can buy. he is still drawn to it today and many of his ideas originate here. water and lights and installation that creates a rainbow visible and invisible there or not there at all real but only in our perception.
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reindeer moss war from 1904 today flora cried buildings are everywhere. experience and participation knowledge that comes through perception musicality and movement then these to experience all of 4 of the awesome that plays with this. great song from the roof of his studio. here is his laboratory and his think tank and own machine he works together with 120 creative people craftsmen scientists and architects this is the only way to realize the large scale collaboration's with climate activists the un the world economic forum and partners in the private sector the tate modern provides a comprehensive overview of this multi communicating to
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a particular finite the tunnel of fog disorienting spatial experience providing space for associations and encounters. suddenly it's like art. listening to you and doesn't tell you you have to do it one way or the other doesn't talk down to you listens to you. and if we also listen to create the attention that we need to apply to the world. and that's on in london until january 5th just in case you can manage to make the trip well speaking of paying attention to our world this week in our series underground europe we're looking into some of the wonders lurking below the surface here in europe and this time we're in switzerland where the southern town of sally are not boasts the largest sub to radian like on the continent and it's a cool and
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a really beautiful place to duck into on a hot summer day. rainbow trout are the only inhabitants of the biggest natural in europe they were specially brought here to the lake under the small swiss religion. to maintain the water quality and also as an extra attraction for tourists. are regularly guys visitors have crossed the like he's fascinated by the car. and. we live in a world where we're trying to get closer to nature to return to the essential things of life this is a place where we can be more at one with nature away from the outside and the excitement of pleasure. like is 300 metres long and 20 metres wide behind the rock formation is a case that stretches for. but it's not accessible. to the right
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projections or to an old legend which said the goals of would come here to see the faces of the future husbands reflected in the water now the like attracts some $80000.00 visitors a year to see things have been strengthened to prevent peace. fording on the tourists. the case has a constant temperature of 15 degrees celsius perfect for storing wine this one is from a local village not christoph but 3 say he has been yards 70 metres above the like an ideal location. the locals here will always aware of this water filled cave but it was only in the 1940 s. that it became more accessible following the clay. court of a sudden the sleepy village suddenly announced attracted a lot of unfamiliar attention.
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every year around a dozen concerts are held in the cave tonight there are about $100.00 people in the audience on stage the 2 folk country and blues from. the musicians have toured the world but they've never played on such an unusual stage before. it's magical there's an incredible silence and i think that the audience feels it too so there was silence in some pieces and that changed our way of playing it left the spaces we could play with the silence as
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well and that was impressive. and finally we can't sign off without the news that their war lens has lost another musical legend as art neville cost a way on monday at age 81 a celebrated funk musician behind the majors and the neville brothers he was nicknamed pop up funk and he had major successes with his brothers in the late eighty's and ninety's with albums like yellow moon for brothers keeper and so we'll leave you with a track from that last one here is the neville brothers performance of falling rain all the best you from berlin and by. tom.
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