Cultural Week
It was an unusually busy week for us. Sunday luncheon with Mutti, Easter Monday Brunch at friends', Tuesday to Emden for a museum exhibit on Realism, Wednesday a class (hey, work!), Thursday, a class and the Cirque du Soleil, Friday to Hamburg with a different group of friends for yet another museum exhibit. I'm exhausted, but it was all fun.
Tuesday with the old standbys (Klaus, Johanna, Ulli, Ilsemarie) by train to Emden. It's a lovely little town with a very nice museum. The entrance has changed since our last visit, and certainly challenges reality! Everything about this boat is real, except of course you cannot sail it. If it were warmer here, I'd say it looked like the thing had warped in record heat.
Sunny and cool, we cultured ourselves for a couple of hours. It was an excellent exhibit, well-arranged with art from various media illustrating different aspects of Realism. Photographic Realism is amazing to me - it seems the artists use brushes with a single hair to achieve the effect of no brush at all.
Of course, there are no pictures from the Cirque de Soleil performance on Thursday, but if you want a taste of it, here's a link to their promo of the show. The artists are simply incredible and we thoroughly enjoyed it. But man we were home late!
Then it's Friday and we have to get up EARLY and catch the train to Hamburg for the exhibit on Pop Art at the Hamburg Modern Art Gallery. Wow, that was fun. Andy Warhol is of course the patron saint of everything Pop and he got first billing. But there were plenty of others to gawk at (sometimes "admire" is too grand a word....). The music in the video was played in several of the rooms - you could dance and look at the same time. I don't think that made us cool. But we try.
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