off match day 2 on friday night by beating her to berlin at 31 in the german capital with frankfurt already 2 nil up sebastian road fired in their 3rd goal in the 71st minute and it was a stunner rhodes rocket flew past the rate of the outstretched goalkeeper the wind puts frankfurt in 1st place at least for now. you're watching news david leavitt is up next with all the latest in arts and culture i'm rebecca ritter's in berlin for me and the entire team thanks very much for watching. i'm secure in the by work that hard and in the end this for me you are not allowed to stay here we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with lions of the what's your story ready.

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and a solar powered sculpture taking flight without the help of fossil fuels argentinean artist saying i was vision for the future. welcome to arts and culture when mayo 1st came on the scene museums were reluctant to buy the artist's works large figurative paintings were out of style especially by artists from the former east germany well now i'll spend things are so valuable most museums can't afford this week the artist unveiled a new body of work and our reporter melissa hall right was there. this is a result i was anyway it's all just paint it's just paint that's something we all have to agree on. paint worth millions the exhibition hunt for handrail on show in the house hometown of like boasts 16 new works by the

master painter and nick matic pieces that speak to the viewer's unconscious but it also says that for him the characters he creates are much more than just figments of the imagination. they are very real for me because my creations really do stalk me in the night. paintings are very open to interpretation and their inner workings are not something he usually likes to talk about until now that is kind to my. fault you could say that this woman who lives in the foreground of the picture finds herself in a situation where there's petro and so what does she carry at home playing phone with no holes so how can she carry this flammable material when all she has is this lace vase it's a 100 so she decides to use that as a canister. in the end that is the job of art to take all the battles all the evil

all that is uncomfortable and disgusting and to cultivate it as you think. commentary gives the works a new life. the. paintings are influenced by socialist realism style prevalent in the east germany of course you but they're not one sided. this painting is called hand or hand rail in english he we have a scintilla together with a woman who has 2 faces or 2 heads and 3 legs he's holding a hand it looks like they could be dead soon or he could be taking her somewhere near the rocks paintings and all gold all evil there's always opposites in them and so what we have is quite a positive situation there's music being played over here and a man with a guitar but with a headed looks like it's quite dark and for that they can and need to handrail. a lot of neo house own life and contradictions are reflected through his work there's

a stark difference between his work reflective and not about money or fame and the huge success he's received. at 60 votes already looking ahead. is from windsor human i'm working till 65 then i'm going to retire and get my monthly 365 euro pension so that's one goal of the one see you then i'm going to go on a cruise to venice. we need to. the till then still has a bit more time on his hands to get some painting him. as a whole right just got back from that exhibition of welcome melissa that was a joke right the thing about the pension is if you're one of the wealthiest men in germany you know he's one of the 1000 wealthiest men in germany that's largely due

to his popularity in the united states where his works sell for millions and that is before even my word yeah but that doesn't mean he's not without his critics not everybody loves neo route. he's accused of milking east german seems his also if used too much symbolism in his work and the lack of real content is no where dreams are all about the sort of lots of symbolism little real content. yet that is what dreams are about and the characters in his paintings are very dreamlike it's almost like this sleepwalking they seem like they're quite lonely characters who are unaffected by what's going on around them whether that be good or evil they're also often in different historical costumes from different periods and this takes away any idea that there is a chronological order to the painting so it's like they're all trapped in that type of time warp ok so you've got this sort of weird mixture between history and mystery for me part of the mystery around nero has always been his name you know

new how is the german word for smoke is that even his real name is his real name i didn't think it was his real name but yeah apparently he says he doesn't like it he considers himself to be quite a conservative person he starts work at 9 o'clock in the morning and finishes at 6 o'clock in the evening he has lunch every day with his wife he's has a very structured life but it was the name that his parents gave him and they died tragically when he was just 6 weeks old and that's something that also features a lot in his paintings and sense of foreboding connected to his biography melissa thanks so much for checking out the exhibition for us and thanks for coming in the studio. now german pianist mr advani was a child prodigy and is now in his forty's and still enormously successful as near jazz solo album more than kent or moonchild is 46 minutes 38 seconds

long and that is not an accident i think zack the length of an astronaut's solo orbit around the moon in 1969 here's a taste. no 'd it's not about the movie it's about loneliness be on the move on the new album or any. live music is inspired in part by u.s. astronaut michael collins who orbited the moon on his own in 1900. 2 more famous members of his mission to surface with each orbit cullen's lost contact with the earth for 46 minutes isolation a fitting theme for 2021 civility the coronavirus situation happened by chance just

as we'd started recording it was made a pretty little i drove into berlin alone and the city was completely empty and for the sitting at the piano in the big studio i suddenly felt i was in a capsule sending signals to the outside but i was all by myself once and not also is of einstein's present. ready ready ready ready ready coffee cups placed on the strings had an unexpected magic. the album's title mooned and kin moonchild comes from the fantasy novel the never ending story. see there's a part of the novel that's very important and moving for me around the middle of the book when the protagonist suddenly has to rename his inner world annoyed and he

has to give it a new name so his story can continue writing i think that's a process that musicians and improvisers often experience and for you have to examine your inner soundscape and your ideas and give them new names on most of. the name mooned and get into a new child some is that idea up from a dozen but it also draws a nice connection to the lonely astronaut michael collins who orbits the moon and with each orbit is reborn and won't cost went. up nor could one what are you to morbid. jabs from the dark side of the moon for late night. since the coronavirus pandemic started we've all become more aware of the air around us and the particles in it artist. has a new show with

a computer program that creates sounds based on the dust that's in the air just the way to of his many trailblazing works. flying without fossil fuel is this possible and how can our to help to reach this goal. flying since not been thinking about the idea of flying cities for a long time is it that our planet orbits the sun wheel humanity and all planetary species are travelling at a speed of 76000 miles an hour the idea of flying cities is really that utopian from a cosmic perspective if i tell an astronaut about it he'd say but we're already flying . back in tinian performance and installation artist thomas sarah say no 6 to answer the most pressing questions of our time how can humankind live in harmony with nature use the earth's resources more efficiently and develop greener mobility solution sorry say no has always been fascinated by the interplay between

art and science in 2011 he showcased his cloud cities project at a museum in berlin this project like so many others question the way we live as a society and vision of new forms of human coexistence and community. in 2018 service a no showcased an installation at paris's famous poly to tokyo contemporary art venue it focused on the importance of air and how we as a species are polluting this vital element sorry say no set up 76 spider webs to make the air more tangible as it were spiders after all depend on air to construct their intricate web site. the spider webs were starting point i've been fascinated by them for a very long time they're connected to the spiders. thomas arsinoe often incorporates spiders in his work researching them and how they live. in his installations which

take up entire rooms sorry say no continually plays with the patterns and shapes found in his spider's web site visitors can even enter into a huge. web and experience the world from a spider's perspective. sara santa was also interested in alternative means of travel and how art can inspire us to think outside the box for years he's been experimenting with flying arrow solar sculptures at a variety of locations around the globe these free floating sculptures are lifted only by the sun and carried only by the wind and they enable flight without burning fossil fuels are radical concept and one that has already set several world records . sorry say no uses his art to get people thinking protecting the classical element that keeps us alive is its main goal a way of making amends to mother earth. the journeys that is the mission and we will often lose our way on this journey but we will continue on with enthusiasm and

hope it is a. good and we've got lots more of the muscle mass you know for you on a special edition of art's 21 this weekend on the w. you can find it online at d w dot com slash arts 21 from here and all the crew here in berlin thanks for watching have a great weekend. a man a bicycle and one cold. today i want to find out why the muzzle is one of the most beautiful river states in germany so i'm also right along a part of the result psychopath. the beautiful landscape is certainly confirms here . this bike tour is for congress or. chick to the.

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