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The
roots of Artè Vita lie in Imperia at the Italian sea coast. It was here
that Michael Kramer together with Zsuzsanna Laki founded the “School
of new theatre ideas Bajazzo.” This was not a theatre school in the traditional sense but la lab in which the academic boundaries between theory and practice, between theatre and music, dance and painting were set aside. Since many renowned artists worked here in their summer studios like Baselitz, Arman, César, Kriester, Costa, Herkenrath, Albrecht, Bendixen and Helms, it made sense to found the international “Gallery Bajazzo”.
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The sequence of symposia Arte è Vita developed from these activities. Beginning in 1993 every year international artists dealt with different topics at placed that had already become places of art, e.g. parks and industrial areas, places with interesting architecture or even forgotten places which had become remaining islands in society. Potsdam and the surrounding water landscape of the river Havel offer almost ideal surroundings for these topics.
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To find places for art and art for places are important components and
goals of the project.
These
goals were given new force and greater dimensions with the founding of
the “Potsdam Prize for Visionary Images” – sponsored by Gallup
Germany. The prize also promotes Potsdam´s attempt to be nominated
as the “Cultural Capital of Germany 2010”, because the (bi-anually)
chosen works of art will remain in the city and enhance the city with
its visionary ideas.
The sculptures “The Fallen Angel”, Bernd Hechler in Imperia (left)
and „The Golden Cage“ by Rainer Fürstenberg (right) on the Island
of Friendship are only two examples of the art works of Arte è Vita.
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“The Fallen Angel”, Bernd Hechler, Mühlheim"
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"The
golden Cage" Rainer Fürstenberg, Potsdam
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Dietmar Kamper, Berlin
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From the start, each symposium was structured around a lead thought which
formed the basis for the concept and work of the artists. Scientists and
intellectuals of different fields are buildiing bridges between science and
vision, history and the future: The philosophers Dietmar Kamper (left) and
Jan Bass, Paris, in Imperia during the symposium “Chaos”, Dr. Michael
Haerdter 2003 during “Islands of Utopia” in 2003 and “Arte E Vita –
Time for Visons in Potsdam and the Havel Region in 2004.
Beginning
in 1998, a selection of the works thus created toured through Italy and
Germany. Stops along the way were Imperia, Potsdam, the nearby Tremmen Golf
Course, the Botanical Gardens in Berlin, and the foundry Fonderia Immart in
Rome (right). It was here that some artists were given the opportunity to
transform their works into bronze, Torrita die Siena – Galleria Immart.
In
the year 2000 the works continued to travel from Imperia to Brescia, the
Centro Arte Lupier and to Frankfurt/Main to the studio ship Unartig.
Eventually they moved on to Potsdam and were shown at the Federal German
Garden Exposition, the “Bundesgartenschau” and the Potsdam City Station.
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Pietro Caporella,
Rom,
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