Wednesday May 6, 2009 at 8pm
Language: English
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During his stay in Lebanon while working on his new project on cluster bombs, German artist Lukas Einsele will give a talk at Beirut Art Center.
Einsele will mainly present his former project One Step Beyond – The Mine Revisited (www.one-step-beyond.de), which tells of landmines and their victims and their visible relationship to one another.
Einsele will also draw a line to his new project The many moments of an M85 – Zenon’s arrow retraced. In this project, the artist will reconstruct the trajectory of a cluster bomb, from the spot where it explodes (or not) back to its origins.
Born in Essen, Germany in 1963, Lukas Einsele lives and works in Darmstadt and Mannheim. He studied German and Theatre at the Free University of Berlin from 1982 to 1985, and then studied photography at the College of Higher Education in Darmstadt from 1985 to 1991. Einsele primarily works with photography, video, and text. A central aspect of his work is treating memory as an action. Memory is a process that generates images, one in which human beings position themselves in relation to their environment. Lukas Einsele’s work has included a period as artist-in-residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, in 1997. His recent project, One Step Beyond – The Mine Revisited – has been exhibited at Witte de With Center of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
Lukas Einsele’s residency in Lebanon is supported by the Goethe Institute. |
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