 | World Poetry30. November 2011
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.
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