germany's top prize for young artists. here in berlin will be looking at a retrospective of the great photographer robert frank which is just opened. it has been scientifically proven that singing is good for you for your soul as well as your physical being and if you need more proof look no further than this next report every year at the base of best in bomb there's a campus concert which brings together young german musicians and young musicians from another country this year it's singers from leipzig with singers from johannesburg in south africa and they premiered a brand new piece by young south african composer chap road so ted see in bonn on thursday evening. the climax of an unusual musical encounter on the campus project spic moments that tones of

beethoven festival. and the encounter began here in johannesburg the bustling metropolis in south africa the 6 young women from light seeing here for the 1st time a members of an acapella ensemble called her way into the swedish word for subtle they are here to meet 6 singers from southern africa. and the 1st rehearsal just 6 the african singers and whaler hit it off right from the start the work on their common repertoire begins. to sing.

things move fast the very next day the 1st performance together in a music school in soweto. can you believe that you just did that yesterday i think 5. 5. that actually house all day is dedicated to chapo so ted sees a new composition commissioned by doj chavela the singing would like to be backed by a symphony orchestra they only have a short time to get it ready for the premiere at bond's beethoven festival. and his piece to pose pieces are usually very exciting and with music so yeah i'm enjoying it i think that this music and the opportunity to sing together has well

that us one family together that it doesn't really feel like just 3 days this is asked by titus and. the german national you for stretch x. time off from it so much all from south africa for a 1st rehearse so with so taxi and the trial singers c the pace is code. of change yeah. 6 so of all is described by music as new school stiffly new school it's new striving for something different. look with the same instruments with the same kinds of musicians but it's just the perspective that that is changing so i mean i'm a very young guy i'm 20 years old now and believe that if anything since i have the kids to of composing i should be reflecting on the times of today and it's. to tears composes to to really put say that couldn't feel of

what we experience as the old people thought like i thought china for the typical south african vava q just the thing to get your strength through an exhausting rehearsal schedule thought through a week of intense work the groups you like secret and johannesburg quayle and just 6 have become friends. and their union and bone was also a great success i. gave my word and this was. i. i.

i i. every 2 years since the beginning of this century the association of friends of the nazi or nagasaki here and balin awards a prize to young officers working here in germany now this is so station is made up of many of the movers and shakers of the art scene here so it's a real step up for the eventual winner and indeed for the other 3 nominees this is when has just been announced and it is a young office for must say in france who lives and works care about them. for the same. time is the winner the most able artist is the joint to see the coveted. by feel so well coming. in a concert that is not mine the reason. it is good the full and also i wouldn't surprise me that. we there were there is not that i think going to be easy to.

to handle. tonight. the jury rewarded jordan's challenging and compelling language saying her works open an uncertain experience the berlin based artist combines installations with performance of film with sculpture at the hamburger bahnhof museum in berlin she is presenting to new installations. old. the film that is focusing on the fantasy which is the women who are not anymore mansouri to do a bidding again he found pleasure. men oppose a women in the throes of sexual lost in a way women at this age are rarely shown i love syria types not only for shalit of archetypes in their representations have

a very important function of rejection of projection of fetishism i try to break that down to stereotypes by pushing them somewhere we are not used to see them to correct the serial types this is what i tried to. convince the jury with hope the prize is a solo exhibition which will be put on next year until february her works will be shown together with those of the other shortlisted artists the shortlist exhibition is considered a major overview of the upcoming contemporary art scene all 4 artists have already attracted plenty of international and national attention the prize has been promoting contemporary art since 2000. the must see when you see how important and successful the prize has been measured by the number of prize winners who are a major artist today and i'm happy that the prize continues. and that really goes

to those who deserve it you should try giving be a thank you one thing is for so you'll be hearing a lot more from a lesion artists but especially from poorly including judd thank the swiss american photographer robert frank was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century renowned for his role and expressive style which changed the course of documentary photography he captured ordinary people doing ordinary things finding guarded moments and intimacies in his subjects a retrospective of his work just opened here and planned long before the news came of his death last tuesday of the age of 94. the seemingly tranquil a made spot behind it is a history of the question sacred a shame and racism this photo is just one couple 103 made robert frank a legend. in the photo both the americans

captured and $950.00 s. in the united states the photographs taken of a months traveling across the country exposed to the heart of america. it was a group that really made history in the united states because it showed pictures that nobody wanted to see you because you say showed another american. that the picture that people had in their minds to change the course of photography and he changed it you people who haven't are out of the 1960 s. brad enough to. respond franks saw a country so different to his own he had a nuanced gaze of an outsider the lens of the way would travel on american society the static of defeat generation. the photographs the right move there were other focus it wasn't up to the standards. good professionals and good for you would be

good for the world. to see our gallery in berlin is now exhibiting robert frank on scene and anonymous image and his photographs provoked a curiosity of the world that he sees his gaze a radical frankness unpolished spontaneous and sometimes even intrusive. thanks this was one of his favorite photographs. i think said i have in my shows a black couple in a park in san francisco and they look at the photographer assistive us kind of shocked and angry because he's taking a picture. of the exhibition also displays early unpublished photographs which he took in europe again we see the close look he takes of people in all walks of life with the enduring paris london he's telling

the narrative with a visual language. later in life he also made films and videos he's rolling stones tour documentary became a scandal that he went to haiti what we're doing here it's not. just a few days ago robert frank died at the age of $95.00 he started in 1941 and the photograph who killed last year or maybe the beginning of this year that's like so i have to croak like almost 70 years in the war of photographs and films and needs it's an enormous amount of work that is left over and that this is a legacy does is unparalleled his photos and now classics subjectives truthful he was a giant in photography and artistic destruction who kept his unconventional view of the world until the very end. sort of so for

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