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.
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