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<div class="module preamble"><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><u><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Uddrag af henvendelsen fra Kunsthaus Dresden</span></strong></u></span></p>
<p><em style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">“For February next year we are preparing an exhibition and an intervention in public space in Dresden. Both are developed around the commemoration of the end of Second World War, February 1945 when Dresden, as many other European cities was heavily bombarded. In Dresden this commemoration has a conflictual history. This motivated us and also the city to intervene artistically into the scenario from time to time during the last decade.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The main conflict lines are, that this commemoration of course has to be seen and held in a European dimension, after all war and fascism has been initiated from Germany and led to tremendous suffering, of course Dresden is only, but one of many communities which has suffered in consequence, all over the world.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Together with the city municipality and many other groups from the civil sphere it is always a big aim, to keep up this consciousness and make sure, that right wing groups, who try to occupy and instrumentalize the historical events for their current aims, cannot dominate the scenario.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The imprint of your Rolling Angels got stuck in my head, as such but also in relation to the experiences of these days.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We have suffered a lot of aggressive atmosphere in this time, due to the right wing, and then again the protests around their instrumentaliations. The angels, somehow, could insert a different energy into this scenario, an unquestionable essence of empathy, authority (spiritually of course) and mourning in a universal sense, also addressing contemporary causes to mourn.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This whole context in the public space however requires a specific response, in order not to open the door for a huge number of artistic contributions somehow evolving around issues of war and mourning. So I was wondering, whether it would at all be imaginable to think of, possibly in collaboration with Geir Johnson, one or two additional Angels, responding to this specific situation, current situations of mourning civil victims of war all over the world ...”</span></em></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:12px;"><em><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz, Leitung / director Kunsthaus Dresden</span></em></span></strong></p>
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