Adventures of 2nd year Fine art student: Student visit to Berlin Feb 2012

Adventures of 2nd year Fine art student: Student visit to Berlin Feb 2012: BERLIN 2012 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lightworks/275605869142231 Our college trip to Berlin began...

Adventures of 2nd year Fine art student: BERLIN 2012Day 1After eventually arriving at Hot...

Adventures of 2nd year Fine art student: BERLIN 2012
Day 1
After eventually arriving at Hot...: BERLIN 2012 Day 1 After eventually arriving at Hotel Transit Loft on Immanuellekirchstraube we made ourselves comfortable before partaking...

Adventures of 2nd year Fine art student: BERLIN 2012DAY 2 After a typical continental bre...

Adventures of 2nd year Fine art student: BERLIN 2012
DAY 2
After a typical continental bre...: BERLIN 2012 DAY 2 After a typical continental breakfast we all marched off to Alexander Platz to take the U Bahn (Underground) to Potsdam...

BERLIN 2012
DAY 2 
After a typical continental breakfast we all marched off to Alexander Platz to take the U Bahn (Underground) to Potsdammer platz and The New National Gallery to see the Gerhard Richter - Panorama exhibition. I had seen it at the Tate modern in London last year, but the gallery was so light and spacious it really added to the composition of the exhibits.

The black marble walls were a great background for the glass sheet exhibits and I really liked the side view which gave a fractured image of people walking around the gallery.

                                                                                                 

             

It was really poignant to see his work in his home country in the same month that he celebrated his 80th birthday. His work is so diverse and varied from prints, abstract oils on canvas to sculpture. I found this one quite disturbing it gave me a feeling of uneasiness as I was not quite sure what was going on but it felt primitively menacing.

We also visited the Holocaust Memorial by Peter Eisenman 19,000 square m house 2,711 concrete slabs or Stelea are 7ft long and range between 8 in to 15 ft high and they certainly give the viewer an uneasy and uncomfortable atmosphere designed to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.

                    

It was a very moving place and the cold drizzle ran down the slabs like tears. My handprint on a Stelea.

BERLIN 2012
Day 1
After eventually arriving at Hotel Transit Loft on Immanuellekirchstraube we made ourselves comfortable before partaking in some local German wine, would have been rude not to!

 

 

 We all had a wander around to familiarise ourselves with the area and found a nice little cafe for Kaffe and Kuchen before making our way to Alexanderplatz and taking the U Bahn to vist the National Gallerie, which had a huge collection of Gerhard Reicthers inspiring works.

Student visit to Berlin Feb 2012

BERLIN 2012

                 

  

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Our college trip to Berlin began with a spot of advertising for the forthcoming Lightworks event, in the Services, Manchester airport and on the plane.  
Lightworks 2012 


Friday March 16th 

The now familiar Lightworks symbol found it`s way to a wide array of places throughout the week as we endeavoured to spread the word internationally.