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Exhibition dates: 8th February – 11th May 2014

What a magnificent exhibition. We all know Brancusi and Man Ray but it is the work of Medardo Rosso that surprises and delights here, an artist I admit I knew nothing about before this posting. What a revelation, both his sculptures and photographs. I must try and do a whole posting just on his photographs!

The two self-portraits of the artists in the studio are telling… Rosso, pensive, brooding, with a stack of chopped wood surrounding him, face wreathed in shadow, head titled slightly down and hands stuffed in pockets; Brancusi, seated on a plinth, legs crossed, swarthy arms folded replete with large hands, staring directly at the camera and surrounded by his work. Rosso in malleable darkness, Brancusi in towering light. The photographs reflect their respective personalities and inform the art which represents them.

Marcus

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Many thankx to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen for allowing me to…

Please note that the words below are the same only in writing but not in pronunciation . Still interesting and fun to know it, though. 🙂

Le coup d’œil craintif à tous azimuts
Se heurte à des murs gris,
Et « soleil » n’est encore qu’un mot vide.
Détrempés et nus, les arbres ont froid,
Les femmes vont, paquetées de manteaux,
Et la pluie sans fin crépite et crépite.

Lorsque j’étais encore enfant, jadis,
Le ciel sans relâche était clair et bleu
Et tout nuage frangé d’or.
Maintenant que j’avance en âge,
Toute brillance est accomplie,
La pluie crépite, le monde a changé.

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Cette traduction originale, due à Lionel-Édouard Martin, relève du droit de la propriété intellectuelle.  Il est permis de la diffuser, à la condition expresse que le nom du traducteur soit clairement indiqué.

Der scheue Blick an allen Enden
Stößt sich an grauen Wänden,
Und « Sonne » ist nur noch ein leeres Wort.
Die Bäume stehn und frieren naß und nackt,
Die Frauen gehn in Mäntel eingepackt,
Und Regen rauscht unendlich fort und fort.

Einst als ich…

By Marco Santopadre

The parliamentary elections in Hungary Sunday confirmed a trend already evident in recent years – a right wing government that maintains its position of dominance and a growing neo-Nazi opposition. The election also saw an increase in voter turnout, by four percentage points, reaching 61% participation.

The former Liberal party Fidesz, led by outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban and positioning itself as openly reactionary, populist, xenophobic, won 44.5% of the vote, a percentage that gave it an ample majority in the parliament in Budapest.

It led the Social Democrats by as many as 20 points; they garnered only 25.9% against the Nazi Jobbik which soared to 20.7% of the vote (it was 16.7 in 2010 ). The ecologist LMP gained 5.2%, however, this is enough to allow him entry into parliament, as the minimum threshold is set at 5%. Based on these almost definitive results Fidesz would…

The slideshow below features a selection of gallery views of the newly-installed Sven Berlin exhibition, which opened with a Private View on Saturday 12 February.  Images from the Private View van be also seen. The exhibition of  paintings,  drawings and sculpture celebrates the centenary of Sven’s birth in 1911. Many of the works in the show have only recently been released from The Artist’s Studio. To view the exhibition in full, please visit the gallery website.