"Art as Dekokirsche"
A similar problem as in Hamburg Niklas Maak writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 18 November 2009 under the title "Down with the white cardboard. would like to go till it is the last main building site in Berlin at the Humboldt harbor, Wowereit with a new art gallery, after "Alexander Platz and plastered Potsdamer Platz with shopping malls and cinemas were on Pariser Platz, the silent facades of banks and embassies, dominate at the Republic Members' offices and dog poop. " Here are some verbatim excerpts
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"Where there is much more obvious to capitalism, is summoned to art Like here ...."
"... The real question is: Why again an art gallery? Why do you build again the same dull white box? Could one not very different art show
?..." "... It's become fashionable to use art spaces as a value-added Dekokirsche on commercial real estate projects, the artist should give the flavor of the neighborhood urban resistance and thus counteract the sterility, the project until the city brings. It is understandable that artists go on strike because, they can not make the sausage, to which Wilhelm Brandt, spokesman of the real estate developer VIVICO, she explains, when art in the "Daily Mirror" as a bait to important people in the city to attract "the is like a meat counter, the larger the selection, the better
...." "... The port is Berlin's Humboldt last place, could indicate to the architect and city planner, what is the public space of the twenty-first century and the role of culture to play ... "
Perhaps we should go back to the concept of history in the Hellenistic antiquity, which concerned the word museum is not only a house, but that marked a whole neighborhood, a" porous and also socially permeable structure, one from open spaces-knit cultural landscape in the arts - including dance, theater, music - would otherwise performable ?..."
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