World Poetry

27. August 2011 - 08. January 2012

The exhibition is about the experience of beauty. The experience you can have across cultures - an experience that something has a value in itself.

Bettina Winkelmann's paintings take their starting point in impressions she has received through several stays in Damascus, trying to capture the beauty of the city with her colours.

The walls of the street are gloomy, the doors discouraging. But one is ajar, revealing inner rooms. You get a glimpse of paradisiacal beauty.

In layers upon layers of colour and fragments of patterns, the paintings reveal themselves and capture light and moods experienced in Damascus. But this beauty does not just belong to this city, it is universal.

Philosopher Dorthe Jørgensen adds to the paintings small philosophical texts; not commenting on the paintings but in themselves describing the experience of beauty on the basis of philosophical thoughts. The texts become thought images crossing thinking and poetry.

This makes the exhibition a dialogue between art and thinking considering the idea of beauty.