day 4 - muenster
Yesterday, we fed the meter every hour in the lot where we parked starting at 8:00 until it stopped accepting money. We made a late start, and were quite happy to sleep late. When we finally got going, the rain started and on our way out into the city, we noticed that we had been issued a parking ticket.
We began exploring the city by walking down Konigsstrabe to Rothenburg. Both are basically stone pedestrian streets with lots of stores and restaurants on either side. We stopped in a bookstore and picked up a “visual” German-English dictionary and a few units down for an umbrella.
We spent some time in an open-air market, drinking coffee, and eating bananas, tangerines, crab, cheese, brioche, and shrimp. I think we were shafted on the price once, but neither of us know the language well enough to match the descriptions to the prices.
The art for Skulptur isn’t contained within a building. The entire city is the venue. Every ten years, the artists bring their work to the city and some of it is left behind permanently. We paid the small entrance fee into the Westfalisches Landesmuseum to view the archives of previous exhibitions. Inside was an impressive display of German expressionist work and other fun modernist pieces. I especially liked Franz Radziwill’s “Der Streik,” and Chris and I were both pleased by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s “Frau mit Verbundenem Kopf.”
There is a cartoon series here this year, and we’re bringing back a few prints. We were sad to miss Deimantas Narkevicius’ “Der Kopf,” a 7 metre bust of Karl Marx’s head. Oh yeah, and there was this awesome piece. It looked like a telescope that moved automatically... I forgot to look at the artist. When you looked through the eyepiece, you followed the view of the artist in a small video. We watched “Sie konnte zu Ihnen gehoren” in a hotel. I have to say I was confused, but I caught the sense that there was a commentary on gender roles, power dynamics, war and racism all packed nicely into one bit there.
O.K! Back to town we go!
We began exploring the city by walking down Konigsstrabe to Rothenburg. Both are basically stone pedestrian streets with lots of stores and restaurants on either side. We stopped in a bookstore and picked up a “visual” German-English dictionary and a few units down for an umbrella.
We spent some time in an open-air market, drinking coffee, and eating bananas, tangerines, crab, cheese, brioche, and shrimp. I think we were shafted on the price once, but neither of us know the language well enough to match the descriptions to the prices.
The art for Skulptur isn’t contained within a building. The entire city is the venue. Every ten years, the artists bring their work to the city and some of it is left behind permanently. We paid the small entrance fee into the Westfalisches Landesmuseum to view the archives of previous exhibitions. Inside was an impressive display of German expressionist work and other fun modernist pieces. I especially liked Franz Radziwill’s “Der Streik,” and Chris and I were both pleased by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s “Frau mit Verbundenem Kopf.”
There is a cartoon series here this year, and we’re bringing back a few prints. We were sad to miss Deimantas Narkevicius’ “Der Kopf,” a 7 metre bust of Karl Marx’s head. Oh yeah, and there was this awesome piece. It looked like a telescope that moved automatically... I forgot to look at the artist. When you looked through the eyepiece, you followed the view of the artist in a small video. We watched “Sie konnte zu Ihnen gehoren” in a hotel. I have to say I was confused, but I caught the sense that there was a commentary on gender roles, power dynamics, war and racism all packed nicely into one bit there.
O.K! Back to town we go!