i'm an artist voice gun uses germs to create his artworks and now they're not a 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 const in the city of cars hullo. and leaders in the region seemed interested. in starting to be story this is an important

collection by a major internationally renowned artist and in 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 of cause this agreement was not honored therefore i am unable to get the paintings. so what happened 2 years ago the museum exhibited 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. sagar in the name vo 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 scully wanted to display in a new museum space that will eventually replace this court house 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. 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 was their way of showing the artists that they didn't really appreciate his offer i mean you know it's a 1st. on your 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 drink or young dragon who wants to find the room of having 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 in daring maneuvers so he came up with a story that was in. canadian 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. cannot 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. a. body that the jacket is true that i have that with. the look that up was i get it i'm. now a film adaptation of 1997 book dragon rider is being released in europe it's the story of the dragon fire during a brownie named sorrel and a boy named ben who employ a canoe journey together it's a dangerous one but the dragon is determined to find out where he comes from. a good debate about the. area from korea is satisfied with simply writing about breath taking adventures. she leads 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.

to an end 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 but by your kintyre i hear the same thing in germany but i wondered how that was possible because life in india is so different to my books are definitely my influenced by the realities of life in germany or the united states and not in india and in countries where life is sometimes not that easy and people still speak much more explicitly of all those existential questions of guilt good and evil there's often a very profound understanding of literature it's literature for them not just entertainment because for stand for thought towards which might. not want to hide the weather fans are interested in dragon writers and literary merits the movie offers plenty of action and humor you are out of the gods. with. my pants. now before digital photography took over you may

remember there was a thing called a slide show people use 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 going to work as a biological attack on the photographic slide. these were once totally average slide photos take a shine snapshots street scene relics of the age of analog photography then both come down tough fish them out of the trash and set his bacteria to work. he also does that with icons of art history and slide photos of course. we caught up with one of the congo on time and has been in studio doubts where he

turned slides into art once the bacteria have done their thing. it's. no fun for me 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 because it's lost any more and good info to expose one to conceal 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 for music needs or and it's noise constructed by those. carefully places a drop of bacteria on a slide of an eye but i sure 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. for me 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 country. 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. she is often the 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 i would feel. as with this collaboration between but a chilly and bacteria are to some photographs of this venus in berlin's committed to collecting. 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 this is 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 thought so harms from toss what's going on

cunto finds are in. unusual places in his latest series for instance he's working with nose pickings 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 prussian 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 looming area labyrinth it's called the course of the great journey. any alien runway on tempelhof a faded constellation fallen from the sky either it's the stage for the latest production by berlin's take out on the main role is played by the $3500.00 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 life even if 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 will go through them. some audience members and powers 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 like 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 or getting in others way includes finding a pool getting lost in the labyrinth but finding yourself on an unreal night like this one anything is possible but. 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 thanks for watching.

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development to put the spotlight on issues that matter most hunger to security oppression martian isolation. or not has been achieved so much more needs to be john and i think people have to be a concrete solutions my name is a mcclatchy and i work at the delta. this is d.w. news m d's are our top stories french president among you on my call is calling for an independent probe into the cause of the explosion that leveled much of beirut on a visit to the lebanese capital michael and said victims and families were owed an investigation and pleaded for international aid the blast on choose day killed more

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