
The sound of Nomos Gamma transforms space into experience. The instruments of the orchestra arranged all over the hall, will surround the listener. The music does not preach. It draws the listener in its middle, into her center of power, from where the music is becoming ritual. Nomos Gamma is an answer to the eruptions of catastrophes, which formed the experiences of the world war generations, especially of those who have been chased. Quite similar considerations must have leaded Dimitri Schostakowitsch in the summer of 1945 to the decision, not to fulfill the regular expectations of monumentality when he composed his Ninth Symphony. Winners will be celebrated with sounds of triumph – but a military victory do not mean a victory of humanity.
The Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin and the Deutsche Guggenheim Club cordially invite to their second summer party at the PanAm Lounge.
Milan Kundera called the composer Iannis Xenakis a „prohète de l’insensibilité“. Being sentenced to death as a resistance fighter in Greece, Xenakis flew to Paris after World War II., where he became an architect working together with LeCorbusier. Upon Messiaens advice Iannis Xenakis turned to music, which he revolutionized through his works: „The listener has to be taken, if he wants to or not, and drawn into the trajectory of sound. The sensual shock will be equally striking as a thunder stroke or the view into a deep abyss.“ Dr. Winrich Hopp, director of MusikFest Berlin, and Dr. Margarete Zander, director of Ultraschall Festival and CAA expert for contemporary music, will give an introduction into the work of Iannis Xenakis. (Photo: Philips Pavillon, 1958: Le Corbusier; Iannis Xenakis; Edgard Varèse)
Since its founding in 1897 the family business – now in the fourth generation – works in close contact with the artists, realizing their ideas. Georg Kolbe, Käthe Kollwitz, Bernhard Heiliger, Henry Moore, Rainer Kriester, Anselm Kiefer, Fritz Koenig, Joseph Beuys and many more relied on the knowledge of the Noacks casting house.
The work of the pupil of Joseph Beuys appears with its groundbreaking questions for form and color – even more so in the context of the return of the younger generations to abstract art of the Sixties and Seventies – more up-to-date than ever. The title of the exhibition ICH NICHT (not me) answers Barnett Newmans questions „Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?“ About 200 collages, drawings, photography and prints offer a deep insight look into the work of Imi Knoebel – equally honoring his work on paper.
Halle 14 (hall 14) is a place to see, think about and communicate about contemporary art. The five-storey building is located on the area of the former Bauwollspinnerei (cotton mill) in Leipzig. Since 1990 artist, galleries and other creatives are establishing a productive surrounding for the arts in HALLE 14.