The end of the year is a time to come home. The beginning is one to explore new territories. At least, that has been my pattern for a while.
This year, still being based in London, it was way easier that in 2010 to reach Paris for Christmas. No snow, no cold, no train cancelled nor closed airport...
Paris was simple adorable this Christmas, sunny for a couple of day, quiet as a lot of French people had left the capital for some holdiday, cultural as usual.
My main choice for arts this December has been the Evard Munch exhibition in Centre Pompidou:
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/B7B16198B955CF3BC1257824003508B8?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.2.1&L=1
A gigantic retrospective of the work f the Norvegian master, dedicated to his modern side, the artist of the 20th Century more thant th 19th, from his passion for photography and cinema to his experimentations about the vision, in the end of his live.
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I named this Christmas a 'Yellow Christmas' because of the mild weather and the sunny day around the 25th and the 26th... And frankly, I'm always very releaved to avoid any 'white' holiday. The sun was shining over the Canal when I walked along it and it was also there in Berlin, when I arrived, a few days later, in the German capital.
Berlin seemed a bit changed since my last visit in 2007. More settled, more wealthy. Especially the well-know neighbourhoods of Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg.
But what is definitely still there is this feeling of idleness, of a city where most people have so much time on their hands, enjoying all-day-breakfasts for cheap money, or never-endingly preparing their next exhibition, or play, or whatever.
Coming form London, it seems almost hard to believe and a bit disturbing. Coming from 2011, a year that was so busy and changing and dangerous and exhausting, it was more of a well-desserved relief!
Art highlight: The Berlinische Galerie, in Mitte, where some paintings from the late 19th century sit next to oils from the 20th, and two photography exhibition a currently being displayed.
The location itself is really appealing, wide space, modern, pretty central...
The exhibitions show the phtographies of the German photographer Friedrich Seidenstücker and the Hungarian one Eva Besnyös (1910-2003)and both give a great insight into the 1920s and 30s...
It seemed to be the theme of this trip anyway... After our lovely New Year Eve's party in the 1920s. Felt like we were in the lastest Woody Allen movie, a sort of 'Midnight in Berlin' version, where I even met a man from the Twenties, a German man speaking a perfect English. Only in dreams...
Go to Berlin folks!
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Berlinische Galerie
This year, still being based in London, it was way easier that in 2010 to reach Paris for Christmas. No snow, no cold, no train cancelled nor closed airport...
Paris was simple adorable this Christmas, sunny for a couple of day, quiet as a lot of French people had left the capital for some holdiday, cultural as usual.
My main choice for arts this December has been the Evard Munch exhibition in Centre Pompidou:
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/B7B16198B955CF3BC1257824003508B8?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.2.1&L=1
A gigantic retrospective of the work f the Norvegian master, dedicated to his modern side, the artist of the 20th Century more thant th 19th, from his passion for photography and cinema to his experimentations about the vision, in the end of his live.
-
I named this Christmas a 'Yellow Christmas' because of the mild weather and the sunny day around the 25th and the 26th... And frankly, I'm always very releaved to avoid any 'white' holiday. The sun was shining over the Canal when I walked along it and it was also there in Berlin, when I arrived, a few days later, in the German capital.
Berlin seemed a bit changed since my last visit in 2007. More settled, more wealthy. Especially the well-know neighbourhoods of Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg.
But what is definitely still there is this feeling of idleness, of a city where most people have so much time on their hands, enjoying all-day-breakfasts for cheap money, or never-endingly preparing their next exhibition, or play, or whatever.
Coming form London, it seems almost hard to believe and a bit disturbing. Coming from 2011, a year that was so busy and changing and dangerous and exhausting, it was more of a well-desserved relief!
Art highlight: The Berlinische Galerie, in Mitte, where some paintings from the late 19th century sit next to oils from the 20th, and two photography exhibition a currently being displayed.
The location itself is really appealing, wide space, modern, pretty central...
The exhibitions show the phtographies of the German photographer Friedrich Seidenstücker and the Hungarian one Eva Besnyös (1910-2003)and both give a great insight into the 1920s and 30s...
It seemed to be the theme of this trip anyway... After our lovely New Year Eve's party in the 1920s. Felt like we were in the lastest Woody Allen movie, a sort of 'Midnight in Berlin' version, where I even met a man from the Twenties, a German man speaking a perfect English. Only in dreams...
Go to Berlin folks!
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Berlinische Galerie
Landesmuseum für Moderne
Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969 Berlin Germany
www.berlinischegalerie.deKunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969 Berlin Germany
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