22nd of December
Time for some art. We went to the MMK1, the Museum für Moderne Kunst 1 ( museum of modern art 1). We have 3 here and they are connected by name.
We left the tube at the Konstabler Wache and found a really great mural showing places in Frankfurt and Lyon. We found out that is there since more than 6 years and I've never bumped into it, because I so often take a car for a quick popping into the city, because even the park house is cheaper for an hour or two than the tube. But over two hours better take tube, bus or tram. Anyway: "TIME TRAVEL" is a wall painting representing the 50-year friendship of the partner cities of Lyon and Frankfurt am Main. Like a trip through space and time, the artwork links, as quick as a wink, the banks of the Rhône with those of the Main. The setting of the journey is the virtual U-Bahn (tube). The project was carried out by German and French artists. For the birthday celebrations on 11 June 2010, the artwork was presented to the public by the mayor of the city of Lyon, Gerard Collomb in the presence of the mayors of the partner cities.
This is just a short part of it, showing the main station and a space traveler:
The MMK1 is a wonderful building, built like a cake slice. On the inside it is not bigger, but full of surprising angles, walls, steps …
We arrived when it was still daylight which was nice to picture the facade.
Main exhibition was "Geography Of Time" by Fiona Tan, …
… who presented loads of video installations embedded in different interiors, most like a cheap cinema with chairs and a canvas, some real looking rooms with a screen (Ghost Dwellings I–III) or "1 to 87" which opens the exhibition and stands for the scale of H0 trains which rides through the environment. She put the landscape together with lots of details and even added a drive-in cinema, which Dolly, Molly, Roxy and Joey really liked.
Within the Ghost Dwelling (II in the picture) rooms you could even take a seat and enjoy her films (or not).
As I said at the beginning the MMK1-building is (in my eyes) far more interesting than its content. Just look at this: no just 90° corners, not even at entrances that look average at first sight. And yes, we shot from above. [emoji4]
Okay, this is art: Replica Tables (2014) by Shane Munro. And I still wonder if the plates are part of it, because in the short description were only mentioned: plexiglas, brass, rubber. [emoji15] maybe it's another piece of art placed on this piece of art. [emoji848]
Next two are from William Forsythe (I didn't know when I picked them, thought it's different artists [emoji15]), who became famous (at least here) with his ballet dancers.
With "Towards The Diagnostic Gaze" (2013) he asks for holding that feather duster still. Very cheeky. Thing is I'm not sure anyone any when ever lifted this thing. There is this invitation set in stone, but I didn't dare to lift it nor even put the girls down. [emoji33] I was convinced there would be an alert set off.
Alike was the feeling in this room full of pendulums and the advice given was "go through without touching the strings". Little motors kept the pendulums swinging and changed directions. Interesting to watch, again a big dare to step between the strings and no one except dancers (skinny and boobsless) or maybe Bond, James Bond, may walk through without collisions. Last mentioned one only if bombs would blast at contact. [emoji1] DMRJ might have been able to, but they were frightened to be pushed away by the pendulums. And look at the people on the other side! They also squeezed together at the safe part of the room.
I forgot to read the sign nor did I snap it nor could I find it on the website, so if you know the artist, let me know. Seems I have to go there again to find out. The Dolly herd loved it for being a colourful abstract abstract. And we even found the one or other face. Oh, what fun! [emoji23][emoji106]
Roxy and Joey were a little disappointed, nowhere in the museum was anything especially for them, but Dolly and Molly even got their own "Autobahn"-picture by Thomas Bayrle called "DM, Pappmodell mit Autos" (DM, cardboard model with cars).
At last another exhibit I don't know artist or name, but it felt like a Muppet Show, the puppets had a decent size, the girls were tempted to also take a seat, but I could just prevent it. At least it looks funny. [emoji1]
All pictures 6s+ native, most snapseeded, "abstract" and "DM" also through SRWT and all polaroidFXed.