Blake Fitzpatrick (a contributor to the Peter MacCallum book mentioned above) has teamed up with fellow photographer Vid Ingelvics on an interesting exhibition about the Berlin Wall that is on at the Goethe Institute in Toronto right now. From the artists' statement:
Our interest in the after-life of the Wall has been to reconsider it as a kind of post-monument. We acknowledge the Wall's continuing material existence and the private and public transformations its fragments have undergone. The exhibition at the Goethe Institute in Toronto specifically marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by tracing some of its fragments to the epicenter of the Cold War "victory" -- Washington, D.C.
The show consists of large scale photographs of slabs of wall as they stand in parks and public places in Washington. There are also three big macro close-up shots of souvenir splinters of the wall belonging to American diplomats and a US State Department employee. In a move of superb irony dust gathered from a slab of the wall in Freedom Park, Arlington, VA is displayed on a plinth. In another, a printout of an email from the CIA that emphatically denies the artists information about or images of the wall-chunk on CIA property is displayed with a photograph (the same on posted here) of the same piece, downloaded from the CIA's virtual tour online.
Just got this message by email: "I'm a bit puzzled by the post about the Berlin wall. You call that guy a "contributor" to the MacCallum book. Is the book not all MacCallum?" The answer is that there are three essays in the book, an introduction, and an interview. The interview is by Blake Fitzpatrick. The essays are by Michael Baker, Terence Dick, and Russell Smith. The intro is by Rebecca Diederichs.
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Blake Fitzpatrick (a contributor to the Peter MacCallum book mentioned above) has teamed up with fellow photographer Vid Ingelvics on an interesting exhibition about the Berlin Wall that is on at the Goethe Institute in Toronto right now. From the artists' statement: The show consists of large scale photographs of slabs of wall as they stand in parks and public places in Washington. There are also three big macro close-up shots of souvenir splinters of the wall belonging to American diplomats and a US State Department employee. In a move of superb irony dust gathered from a slab of the wall in Freedom Park, Arlington, VA is displayed on a plinth. In another, a printout of an email from the CIA that emphatically denies the artists information about or images of the wall-chunk on CIA property is displayed with a photograph (the same on posted here) of the same piece, downloaded from the CIA's virtual tour online.
- sally mckay 11-18-2004 12:23 am
Just got this message by email: "I'm a bit puzzled by the post about the Berlin wall. You call that guy a "contributor" to the MacCallum book. Is the book not all MacCallum?" The answer is that there are three essays in the book, an introduction, and an interview. The interview is by Blake Fitzpatrick. The essays are by Michael Baker, Terence Dick, and Russell Smith. The intro is by Rebecca Diederichs.
- sally mckay 11-18-2004 6:44 pm