photos: © Andrea Rossetti . + Esther Schipper
The new 180°-degree panorama draws on the history of Berlin in the 20th century. A central motif of Panoramism and the Abstract Sector is the Berlin Wall. Covered in lyrical abstractions in one section, abstract expressionist in others, the wall forms the backdrop for a myriad of figures—artists mingling with actors (in character and as themselves), dancers, fashion designers, musicians, philosophers, theorists, and writers—quoting from photographs, paintings and drawings. Along a temporal arc—from scenes of crowds atop the wall in November 1989 to later images of toppled sections of graffitied concrete—other locations in Berlin and protagonists from earlier moments, especially the Weimar years with its lively, transgressive, and genderbending art and theatre scenes, are interlaced. Continue reading Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
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