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At the Tel Aviv Museum of Art I found the work of Gil Yefman quite shocking and strange with plenty of interesting narratives. He was looking at a distorted view of his past growing up in Kibbutz Buchenwald, looking at the fracture after WWII between ‘Holocaust’ and ’Revival’. His knitted installation ‘Field Slave’
The food he grew up with, cans of condensed milk
Then I left Israel for Berlin. I was confused where I was, Israel was freezing and Berlin was hot. I had an intense feeling, thinking of the Nazi times and how could somewhere so beautiful turn so evil. I went straight in the morning to visit the Tomás Saraceno studio, a trained architect born in Argentina and studied in Buenos Aires. There were spiders everywhere building indestructible webs, tiny universes formed out of complex interwoven networks
The studio assistants had turned into spider custodians loving and living with them. Their reward were these incredible monumental and intricate webs which vibrated into sound using a sophisticated form of bioacoustics. They told us that 40 000 tons of cosmic dust hit the earth every day and this is another wonderful project investigated by the artist
Then we went to visit the most beautiful studio of Jorinde Voigt where she hosted us for a beautiful lunch
She was a gracious and beautiful host, showing and explaining her work which is inspired from music, mark making by using Indian ink and gold leaf
The exciting moment was visiting Alicja Kwade’s studio where we saw many wonderful and exciting works of art nearly completed ready to go out into the world
The grande finale of all studio visits was visiting Anselm Reyle. His sculptures were outstanding. The ceramics were taken from found objects in flea markets and blown up to monumental sizes, thoughtfully glazed and enhanced to create powerful outdoor sculptures
The garden that he had created with his architect wife was outstanding. Created inside a ruin which Anselm called hedges
Anselm Reyle back in his crazy Gagosian days used to have a hundred helpers but was more happy and settled with his few assistants helping him to create his magnificent works
