MENTAGRAMM III
SCHIELE, EROS, AND THE ART MACHINE KD-L47
In ‘MENTAGRAMM III – SCHIELE, EROS, AND THE ART MACHINE KD-L47’ Alexander Nickl shows sketches and drawings from the year 2017. His so-called ‘mentagrams’ are primarily inspired by Egon Schiele’s erotic drawings, and are presented in the salons of neoprojection theaters. In 2018, the images exhibited therein were evaluated by an art machine, the KD-L47, against the criteria ‘YES-art’/‘NO-art’.
Kerber Verlag
ISBN 978-3-7356-0533-7
16,5 x 24 cm
200 Pages
119 colored illustrations
Hardcover, bound
Languages: German, English, Japanese
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PROLOGUE OF EROS
EROS (zu Pandea)
We drink from the chalice of love,
unimaginably incredible
how our bodies nestle,
curving to find one another.
In a wonderful tenderness,
conscious of transience.
We take, drink
as much as we can.
Knowing well
that finiteness has caught sight of us.
It is an indescribable
wave-billowing sea
that lies in the storms
and where now two soul-filled sounds
meet one another.
The eyes’ gaze
meets briefly for this quiet glow;
a whole life waited for this.
Our mouths pine away as do our bodies.
Extract from the Mentagram Poem, „MENTAGRAMM II“, pp. 802/803
14 May 1912
Dear A. P.,
So I am in the best café in this hotel again, there is only an international audience, very interesting; the whole thing is generously furnished. – Outside is the blue sea, grey, pink, lilac and green dusty stones …
Extract from a letter to Anton Peschka |
Arthur Roessler, Briefe und Prosa von Egon Schiele (Letters and prose by Egon Schiele)
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