Exhibitions, Germany, Berlin, 16 March 2013
On January 8th 2013, his 66th birthday, David Bowie surprised the whole world
by publishing on the Internet a video with the new song Where Are We Now,
a touching wistful retrospect of his Berlin years, and on top of that announced his
first new album since ten years The Next Day – released this week. We immediately
decided to change the spring program of the gallery and to organize an homage to
this exceptional artist and performer.
Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art
Fasanenstrasse 37 10719 Berlin
Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat noon – 6 pm
Phone +49(0)30 – 43.9.08.80
Mobile +49(0)179 – 25.26.210
office@berlin-contemporary-art.com
www.berlin-contemporary-art.com
The fact that David Bowie lived in former West-Berlin at Hauptstrasse 155 in the
borough Schöneberg is notorious. But the literal translation of the German street
name Hauptstrasse means main road. David Bowie in mid-1976 was in many
respects completely burned out. In Berlin he found his way back on the main road
of his life, back to David Bowie. David Jones alias David Bowie alias Ziggy Stardust
alias Thin White Duke had to escape a situation in life, that threatened to devour him
– he needed tranquility and anonymity, the freedom to follow his intentions. This he
found in the divided city. Hugo Wilcken wrote: "Berlin was an island, cut off from
the world, but big enough to get lost in as well. Each layer of the Berlin myth seemed
to reflect something in the Bowie persona – the Expressionist artists; the cabaret
decadence; the Nazi megalomania; the cataclysmic destruction; the isolation behind
the Wall; the Cold War depression; the ghosts who never depart. Above all, Berlin
wasn't quite real." Or, as Bowie sings in Where Are We Now: "A man lost in time near
KaDeWe…"
In Berlin Bowie recovered, and he succeeded to create something artistically valuable
and of seminal impact: The Berlin Trilogy, the three albums Low, 'Heroes' and
Lodger as well as the two Iggy-Pop-albums The Idiot and Lust for Life produced by
Bowie still belong to the best Rock-records of all time.
With our exhibition we attempt – with works of Abetz & Drescher, Claus
Feldmann, Rainer Fetting, K. H. Hödicke, Ivar Kaasik, Wolfgang Neumann,
Tim Plamper, Joachim Seinfeld and Snapple, with paintings, drawings,
photography and some notes – to trace Bowie's time in Berlin, to approach the
phenomenon Bowie, and to suggest the ambience of Berlin in the 1970s.
by publishing on the Internet a video with the new song Where Are We Now,
a touching wistful retrospect of his Berlin years, and on top of that announced his
first new album since ten years The Next Day – released this week. We immediately
decided to change the spring program of the gallery and to organize an homage to
this exceptional artist and performer.
Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art
Fasanenstrasse 37 10719 Berlin
Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat noon – 6 pm
Phone +49(0)30 – 43.9.08.80
Mobile +49(0)179 – 25.26.210
office@berlin-contemporary-art.com
www.berlin-contemporary-art.com
The fact that David Bowie lived in former West-Berlin at Hauptstrasse 155 in the
borough Schöneberg is notorious. But the literal translation of the German street
name Hauptstrasse means main road. David Bowie in mid-1976 was in many
respects completely burned out. In Berlin he found his way back on the main road
of his life, back to David Bowie. David Jones alias David Bowie alias Ziggy Stardust
alias Thin White Duke had to escape a situation in life, that threatened to devour him
– he needed tranquility and anonymity, the freedom to follow his intentions. This he
found in the divided city. Hugo Wilcken wrote: "Berlin was an island, cut off from
the world, but big enough to get lost in as well. Each layer of the Berlin myth seemed
to reflect something in the Bowie persona – the Expressionist artists; the cabaret
decadence; the Nazi megalomania; the cataclysmic destruction; the isolation behind
the Wall; the Cold War depression; the ghosts who never depart. Above all, Berlin
wasn't quite real." Or, as Bowie sings in Where Are We Now: "A man lost in time near
KaDeWe…"
In Berlin Bowie recovered, and he succeeded to create something artistically valuable
and of seminal impact: The Berlin Trilogy, the three albums Low, 'Heroes' and
Lodger as well as the two Iggy-Pop-albums The Idiot and Lust for Life produced by
Bowie still belong to the best Rock-records of all time.
With our exhibition we attempt – with works of Abetz & Drescher, Claus
Feldmann, Rainer Fetting, K. H. Hödicke, Ivar Kaasik, Wolfgang Neumann,
Tim Plamper, Joachim Seinfeld and Snapple, with paintings, drawings,
photography and some notes – to trace Bowie's time in Berlin, to approach the
phenomenon Bowie, and to suggest the ambience of Berlin in the 1970s.
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