german artist uses germs to create his artworks and now they're not the coronavirus. and over $3000.00 candles bring the heavens down to earth for a very special outdoor performance. but 1st imagine someone tries to give you an art collection worth millions of euros how fast would you say yes well that's what irish born american artist sean scully was offering a museum in the city where he lives his own invaluable life's work but the museum and cars who are germany didn't say yes as enthusiastically as he expected it's a tale of frustrations slow bureaucracy and some invaluable artworks stuck in the middle. sean scully wanted to donate 280 of his works worth 100000000 euros to the concert in the city of. and leaders in the region seemed interested. in starting to be story this is an important

collection by a major internationally renowned artist and at 1st glance it does sound fantastic the current posture. apparently not fantastic enough on wednesday sean scully took back his offer saying i reached a clear agreement that the constellation of cause for this agreement was not honored therefore i am unable to give the paintings. so what happened 2 years ago the museum exhibit at some of scully's works the artist was so thrilled that he offered to donate his collection. i had these if to make but he attached demands to his donation demands that we'd have to discuss that i couldn't just accept with no ifs ands or buts i thought sagaing did name go on a venue and. in exchange for the donations scully wanted the museum to build

a permanent 1000 square meter display of at least half his collection it's the kind of commitment germany's museums association advises against sculling wanted to display in a new museum space that will eventually replace this courthouse but the red tape associated with moving the court and taking down a protective building construction might not start for another decade by which point the artist would be $85.00 scully felt he was being strung along the city's mayor agrees. he asked about you but 1st they negotiated the conditions for years making it more and more clear that they were less interested then they proposed a timeline that was unacceptable to the artist from the very beginning and that probably isn't and that was their way of showing the artists that they didn't really appreciate his art for me so 1st the. board of me so wish. in a statement sean scully said there is no such thing as

a flexible gift he's now looking for another home for his 100000000 euro collection . the animated film dragon rider tells the tale of fire drake or young dragon who wants to find the room of have them a legendary place where all dragons are safe even from humans dragon writer is one of the very few new movies hitting the big screen here in europe it's based on a children's book by an author you may have heard of. flying dragons race across the screen and daring maneuvers so we came up with this story that was intended to be a funky is the author of global bestsellers in the fantasy genre. she started her career as an illustrator but eventually wanted to create her own stories. the can now but not write for children but adults are welcome to read my books too it makes me kind of an outcast in the world of literature as children themselves

are but i can live just fine with that. she's written more than 70 books which have sold more than 26000000 copies worldwide. he owns. the. body the jacket is true that i have been with. the look up because i'm getting i'm doing this now a film adaptation of her 1997 book dragon rider is being released in europe it's the story of the dragon fire diary a brownie named sorrow and a boy named ben who embark on a journey together it's a dangerous one but the dragon is determined to find out where he comes from. a good to be sure but the. area from kay is satisfied with simply writing about breath taking adventures. she the it's a quiet life on a ranch in malibu fulfilling a lifelong wish of living in a secluded paradise yet she feels closely connected to her. around the world.

are taken and i was in india once and was suddenly surrounded by indians in their twenty's who asked if they could hug me and thank me because i was part of their childhood. by the kintyre i hear the same thing in germany but i wondered how that was possible because life in india is so different to so in my books are definitely my influenced by the realities of life in germany or the united states and not in india in countries where life is sometimes not that easy life and people still speak much more explicitly of all those existential questions of guilt of good and evil there's often a very profound understanding of literature it's literature for them not just entertainment because for stand follet over towards life that it's a totally not want to hide whether fans are interested in dragon writers literary merits the movie offers plenty of action and humor takes you out of the tights. was that my pants yes. now before digital

photography took over you may remember there was a thing called a slide show people used projectors to show travel photos to friends and family it was torture but if the words slide show still strike terror in your heart stick around for this artist voice work is a biological attack on the photographic slide. these were once totally average slides vacation snapshots street scenes relics of the age of analog photography then both come down tough fish them out of the trash and set his bacteria to work on the. he also does that with icons of art history as slide photos of course. we caught up with one of the congo on tie it has been in studio downs where he

turned slides into art once the bacteria have done their thing. no puts fun funny i thought it was really interesting that there was this classic heaven and hell situation room with adam uneven the tree of knowledge and the snake in the foreground is someone running away from some monsters from the house and now they're running away from explosions and it's lost any more and good info to expose one to console so you can start a kind of collaboration across the centuries of course the original artist no longer has any influence 5 initiated it and the result is a totally new artwork from years that need c.e.o.'s or until it gets noise quins backed up by those. carefully places a drop of bacteria on a slide of an eye but i do like painting nowadays it's all very professional. but

at 1st his light experiments looked like this and come to occasionally got bacteria in his eye and the smell in his bathroom was well challenging. it was never a problem for me but i have collectors who make sure not to visit my studio when they know i'm making cultures you they've tried it in the past and nearly tripped over themselves rushing back out again but there can be a real stank conference to these days he works with renowned research labs in his search for the most a static strains of bacteria for his art. gunter usually uses harmless soil bacteria and even if he now works more precisely he still always surprised when the results emerge from his incubator. to she's a humvee and i'm inspired by different things and sometimes since the subject of

the image sometimes it's a static sometimes it's just a reaction of wow i've never seen that before with your. past with this collaboration between but a chilly counter and bacteria card is a photograph of this venus in berlin's committed equality. and this is what it looks like after various bacteria cultures have eaten their way through the emulsion. for his micro painting series he uses a microscope to photograph chemical processes and then creates huge wall sculptures a common thread in his work is his great love of experimentation that's fine but when control it's very appealing to control the apparently uncontrollable and be constantly surprised by reality in nature for having nature as a kind of collaborator is fantastic. fantastic but don't count on finds art. in

unusual places in his latest series for instance he's working with his nose picking but that's a story for another time. indeed now over the past centuries berlin's temple who've airfield has been a parade ground for the pressure military the entry points to hitler's capital a cold war u.s. military base and now a unique public park with runways for the next week it's also the stage for a very special theatrical experience a group called the new is transforming a corner of the park into a womb an area labyrinth it's called the course of the great journey. in illian runway on tempelhof a faint constellation fallen from the sky neither it's the stage for the latest production by berlin's take out on the main role is played by the 3500 candles that the audiences way through the dark night one by one their live it does even the

theaters artistic director lends a hand on tuesdays and thursdays it's the you got through this sea of lights even and you encounter characters who tell stories from their lives. and you go from one to the next on and on for the whole evening and at some point you're spat out from this world of you to go through something for some audience members spend hours in that world all the characters have somehow remain stuck in their stories. a woman looking for love in the near east. and one who wants to fly and never gives up they're all trapped in the labyrinth that the audience itself they can take their time here remain in darkness and melt into the night. we build these mazes so there's a path to the center and usually there are also dead ends but now due to the coronavirus it's

a labyrinth. where everyone goes their way without doubling back getting in others way. getting lost in the labyrinth the finding yourself on an unreal night like this one anything is possible. that's it for this edition of arts and culture for more culture news by daylight starlight or candlelight check out our website d.w. dot com slash culture we hope you have a very cultured rest of your week for me and all the crew here in berlin and thanks for watching.

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