Jörg Herold
Jörg Herold and his charming wife Jackie are our guests in Georgia. They enjoy Georgian food and drinks, the sulfur bathes and massages and are busy with some very urgent and secret projects on the Caucasus theme. He told me great stories, eating Kebab, spicy Khinkali and drinking Kazbegi-Beer about his discoveries at the Crimea on behalf the plane crash of Joseph Beuys in 1943 near Maikop and about his archiviing projects of inventarizing every single object in 1 room households of accidential citizens. He did this in Wolfsburg and plans to do it now in Georgia. There is a fresh release of a catalogue of his works called
"Jörg Herold. Zeugnisse und Schriften der Reise eines Dokumentararchäologen" very interesting to study, in German language, you may order it here:
See a portfolio of Jörg's works at
Eigen Art here:
http://www.eigen-art.com/Kuenstlerseiten/KuenstlerseiteJH/mappe.pdfLabels: Neue Kunst
Jason Rhoades and Laura died on August 1st
Yesterday two shocks on one day, a week after their deaths. I of course can not compare these two far and different humans, who are only connected via myself.
Jason Rhoades I never met and never saw his installions exept on reproductions, but those I saw regulary in various texts of the German
Kunstforum and was always very fascinated by its courage, surprise effects and nonchalance. I was not much interested in his biographic details (I thought him to be much younger than 41), but over a couple of years to me his name formed a unity with his unexpected and to be discovered works. Parallels I saw with the oevre of
Dieter Roth and the young died
Michel Majerus, who also worked over times in Los Angelos. Sad, that he died far too young.
Laura, was the heart and soul of our Tbilisi neighbourhood at Sayatnova Street and an eminence with authority on everyday-life issues. She lived alone, her son with his family far away in Moscow. Formerly a respected teacher of Georgian language in the 6th school of Tbilisi, she lived the last 4 or 5 years on her little pension of 40 Dollar a month. She had a great heart, very interesting insides on common and neighbourhood issues. She continously fought her loneliness, diabetes and various small diseases, but was in a good shape when we had three weeks ago a good cake and coffee. She also died on August 1st in the age of 71, we miss her a lot.
Labels: Neue Kunst