VERNISSAGE: THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 6:00 pm
MAKE ART NOT WAR — CELEBRATING THE TOUCH
https://www.manw.ch/s-projects-basic
ARTIST TALK, Samstag, 20. September, 14:00 Uhr

ICE BEAR BLUES
Cuddling and touching is increasingly taking place with cuddly toys. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, almost one in five women and one in nine men in Germany do not want to do without a cuddly toy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xRajMQUWE

#celebratingthetouch #makeartnotwar2025 #artforpeace #photobastei #ArtAsResistance

MAKE ART NOT WAR — CELEBRATING THE TOUCH
The portrait excerpts @photobasteizurich
Vernissage: September 11, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
https://www.manw.ch/s-projects-basic
ARTIST TALK, Samstag, 20. September, 14:00 Uhr

THE TRIPTYCH OF KNOWLEDGE — VIOLENCE
Even in my youth, I was struck by the fact that the Bible refers to sexual intercourse as “knowing.”

«And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning.»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5xRajMQUWE

#celebratingthetouch #makeartnotwar2025

MAKE ART NOT WAR — CELEBRATING THE TOUCH
@photobasteizurich
Vernissage: September 11, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

THE TRIPTYCH OF KNOWLEDGE — ASTONISHMENT
Even in my youth, I was struck by the fact that the Bible refers to sexual intercourse as “knowing.” The triptych shows three stages of knowledge: astonishment — pleasure — power and violence.
Adam and Eve presumably are astonished “the first time”: “Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain.”

MAKE ART NOT WAR — CELEBRATING THE TOUCH
The portrait excerpts @photobasteizurich
Vernissage: September 11, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
https://www.manw.ch/s-projects-basic
ARTIST TALK, Samstag, 20. September, 14:00 Uhr

Kafka’s huge insect

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a complex metaphor, among other things for disrupted communication in isolation, for disgust with the body and the body whose touch one avoids. Even after 100 years, it still feels so modern!