Cornelia schleime biography samples
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The Colour, the Body, the Face, the Eyes
Cornelia Schleime is among the most important painters of the present day. This is her first major ex-hibition in Switzerland. She was born in East Berlin in and settled in West Berlin in under dramatic circumstances.
She paints, draws and watercolors women almost exclusively. We will be showing works from the past 18 years. Cornelia Schleime not only has a phenomenal instinct for colors, but her figures likewise thrive from the eroticism of the line as well as a mythic interplay of human, animal and fowl: Antlers become antennas, braided hair become tentacles. But a mythologization nevertheless does not take place: in a series from , for example, she characterized these links as “camouflages.
Cornelia Schleime achieves something very special in her sometimes large-format pictures that exude a fascination which is almost impossible to evade: She understands how to generate the individual in an explosion of color, immerse the outline of
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The World on Paper
The World on Paper
Berlin, Germany
R.
Friedhelm Hütte;
Malströme
Malströme
Mannheim, Germany
Cornelia Schleime (); Helge Leiberg (); Reinhard Stangl (); Ralf Kerbach (); Hans Scheib ();
Die Revolution ist tot. Lang lebe die Revolution (1/2)
- Von Deineka bis Bartana
Die Revolution ist tot. Lang lebe die Revolution (1/2) - 'Von Deineka bis Bartana'
Bern, Switzerland
Kathleen Bühler;
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Third Text
Last Angel of History: Research, Writing, Performance –
Edward George
Edward George, the writer, researcher, presenter and actor in the Black Audio Film Collective documentary ‘Last Angel of History’, returns to the film to elaborate on the research, writing and performative components of his role(s) in the film, and the ways in which the film constitutes a citational work through its revision of the evocation of Africa in Afrofuturism and its engagement with black unpopular culture, its presentation, through its science fiction narrative, of a lost Pan Africa and an African Diasporic memory of slavery, and the use of his body as the medium through which the film’s fictional and historical concerns are integrated.
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Being the Woman They Wanted Her to Be: Cornelia Schleime Performs Her Stasi File –
Sara Blaylock
Conventional wisdom holds that the Stasi policed East German artists because of their potential dissident and ideological pr