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| October 21, 2000 Munich museums' open night |
As part of the Munich museums' open night and taking as its motto "The Long Red Night", The Neue Sammlung will be featuring two premieres: For an entire evening the museum will be a blaze of red and will open its doors to two stars: the video artist Annelies Štrba and top coiffeur Gerhard Meir. |
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| 19.00 bis 23.30 Uhr three works by Swiss video
artist |
From 7 p.m. through 11 p.m. The Neue Sammlung will be showing
top-quality video art, which will be premiering in Munich and initially only
able to be seen on this one evening. The films being shown are three works by Swiss video artist Annelies Štrba,
a trilogy about big cities that critics have termed spectacular: as a result
of Štrba's unusual camera shot New York, Paris and Berlin all
appear to the observer in a completely new light: as mythical dream sequences
that the camera has captured incredibly slowly, as if in a trance, accompanied
by minimalist backing sounds, and, by distortions in the color, rendered
alienated, blurred, unearthly, mysterious and fragile. The architecture of
the big city becomes ghostly, gliding past the observer's view in dreamy,
bizarre images – a new architectural position – and city photography,
as a sensitive response to the urban proliferation of our metropolises.
For the moment Štrba has the artistic world at her feet: on being discovered ten years ago in Switzerland she was immediately offered a solo exhibition in the Zurich Kunsthalle. The photographs by the artist, who was born in 1947 in Zug, astounded the critics; nowadays Annelies Štrba ranks as one of Switzerland’s four greatest artists in the annual “Bilanz” magazine league table. |
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| As of 11.30 p.m. star coiffeur Gerhard Meir will be presenting a unique "Red Hair Performance" |
As of 11.30 p.m. The Neue Sammlung will be transformed into a stage for "Scissor
hands Gerhard": star coiffeur Gerhard Meir will be
presenting a unique "Red Hair Performance". With the help of
his team, mask maker Pia and hair stylist Sascha, Meir creates red hair sculptures
in front of the audience: oversized head constructions, standing up in the
tradition of Rococo hair plaster, yet alienated in a "Cubist" manner.
The show will also feature copious red fountains of hair, á la Venus
by Botticelli.
Six models will present Gerhard Meir's hair creations. Displaying the red hair art they will be strolling through the exhibition rooms accompanied by music by Mandarin Lounge. |
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| The Red Open Night in The Neue Sammlung was conceived and realized by ABW EventFactory Munich in collaboration with The Neue Sammlung. | ||||||||||||
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