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From statues to stones
From statues to stones Jizo protects the souls of untimely deceased children – even the ones that never saw the light of day – and he guides them on their way to a peaceful afterlife. Each Jizo statue was once placed here by the grieving parent(s) of one of those little children. “Falling freely, tears…
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Chisaku-in garden
Chisaku-in garden Sen no Rikyu, the legendary Japanese Tea master, is said to have loved the garden of the Chisaku-in temple. Rikyu died in 1591, while the temple was constructed in 1601. So the garden must have been layed out well before. I can imagine Rikyu sitting on a rock, contemplating the beauty of the…
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Procession
Procession In 2022 I was passing through the Museo Correr in great hurry when my eye fell on this relief fixed on a wall in one of the rooms. I quickly took a photo but had no time to search for a description of the work and I haven’t been able to find information about…
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Friends
Friends They had become our distant friends, the Himalayan peaks that we used to see from our house during the different seasons, year after year. Back in Europe I miss my Indian friends, the ones of stone as well as the ones of flesh and blood. Photo of the week: View from Maat village, Almora,…
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Binsar
Binsar Having left our abode in the Himalayan foothills, I now and then look at the pictures I took there. They let me return virtually to the places that have touched me and of which I cherish the memory. Photo of the week: Binsar Reserve, Uttarakhand, India 2018
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La serenissima and India
La serenissima and India La Serenissima, ‘the most serene Republic of Venice’, was a dominant trading power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, not only in the Mediterranean but as far as the Middle East and Asia. That’s why we see on one of Kiefer’s paintings which he made for the exhibition in 2022 in…
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Tidal wave
Tidal wave “It sometimes happens that there is a convergence between past and present moments, and as they come together one experiences something of that stillness in the hollow of a wave about to break.” (Anselm Kiefer) In the past, Venice was a formidable maritime power whose ships triumphed over turbulent seas. Now, with the…
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Vintage Kiefer
Vintage Kiefer The enormous paintings that – for the time of the exhibition – covered the painted walls of the Sala dello Scrutinio in the Palazzo Ducale in 2022 consist not just of paint on canvas. Whole bicycles, shopping trolleys, clothes and, of course, little submarines are attached to the canvasses. But it’s through the…
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Questi scritti, …
Questi scritti, … … quando verrano bruciati, daramo finalmente un po’di luce : These writings, when burned, will finally cast a little light. That’s the title Kiefer gave to his exhibition of paintings in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice in 2022, coinciding with the Biennale of that year. It’s a line taken from a text by…
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High five at the Arsenale
High five at the Arsenale Except for the time of the Biennales, the corner of Venice in which the Arsenale is situated is hardly touched by the mass of tourists. While between Rialto and San Marco the people inch forward in their thousands, the Arsenale remains deserted. Photos of the week: Arsenale, Venice, Italy 2022
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 