The nexus of brass music and military was interesting me, the nexus of traditional costumes and the marching in formation of men, who are keeping up their tradition with severity and stamina. Here also on the National Day of Austria 2012, on that day children may play with mashine guns and climb about in tanks.
This traditional march music I liked to show in images that look like precious comics, or like hand-colored graphics out of a afar and yet so close by world.
Yes, bulls can be portrayed too.
A Triptychon to a line of the poem „Nè son già morto” by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 – 1564).
I am not dead, I just changed rooms.
I live in you and walk through your dreams …
Qui vuol mie sorte c’anzi tempo i’ dorma:
Nè son già morto: e ben c’ albergo cangi,
resto in te vivo, c’ or mi vedi e piangi;
se l’un nell’ altro amante si trasforma.
I liked the three partitions of the gotic altars. I also digged Triptychs as the images of Jerusalem.
You are invited to my photo exhibition “Passionspace Jerusalem”! Vernissage is on the 13. February 2013 – 19.00 p.m., in Albert Schweitzer Haus, 1090 Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 13.
Encounter
It is a boiling city. When I first entered Jerusalem in 2009/2010 over new year there was a tension quivering in the air that creeped under my skin, and I understood: this is the passionspace where most of the deadly controversions in the Middle East have a strong root. The fights over decades, that are religiously grounded and inspired, politically fought and probably economically motivated to a large extent. In 2012 I came back to join the Easter festivities and made some images. The Via Dolorosa was crouded by christian pilgrims of all continents, and in the same week many Jews came to Jerusalem to celebrate Pessach. Only the Palestinians had a busy life in their own relaxed style: they welcomed the Christians for shopping and disliked the Jews for the annexation of East Jerusalem.
Western Wall Plaza
Behind the Church of Sepulchre. A Coptic monk takes his leave into his hermitage.
The backside of Jesus’ grave
Katholikon
Church of Sepulchre, deposition from the cross
Suq
Moslem neighbourhood
Moslem neighbourhood
Front door
My book has been completed :-)))
The portal to the Church of Sepulcre (bookcover)
You can …
preview passionspace jerusalem here
(and who is a millionaire can buy it …).
This book is NOT a catalog of the exhibition, because we can display only about 20 large-sized images in the Albert Schweitzer Haus. Large-sized means here from 60 cm up to 401 cm length! (I know: that’s totally megalomaniac!! But the exhibition space enforces this ;-)
However, the book shows 40 images on 60 pages in the large format 33 x 28 cm on an uncoated matt paper. It is prized at luscious 84,95 Euro — these are the pure costs of production the online bookmaker Blurb brings to account.
“Passionspace Jerusalem”! Vernissage is on the 13. February 2013 at 7 p.m. in the Albert Schweitzer Haus, 1090 Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 13. The exhibition is opended until the 14. April 2013.