Michael Graeve’s solo show reflects on three aspects that influenced Beethoven’s late compositions : the fragment, the structure of translation and the memory.
„To think of ‚tone‘ is to think of stretching, binding, threading, joining, weaving, netting – in short, tone is the result of a force having been applied to matter.“
Keith W. Clancy on Michael Graeve’s solo show at DAS ESSZIMMER
Michael Graeve creates this point of intersection in his confrontation with Ludwig van Beethoven and his own artistic techniques, as a painter and as a sound artist. In this way he develops a tonal, painted and contemporary answer to questions arising from Ludwig van Beethoven’s compositional work and thus refers to the unsharpness in his late work.
The exhibition, which has been created especially for the ESSZIMMER, ultimately focuses on three concepts that are significant for Beethoven’s late artistic work:
> The Fragment > The Structure of Translation and > Memory and Remembering.
Material
- press release
- invitation
- Artist Talk
- Keith W. Clancys Essay „… Not these Tones“
- Dr. Heidrun Wirth for Bonner Rundschau, February 11, 2020 (only in german)
- Gudrun von Schoenebeck for General Anzeiger Bonn, March 7/8, 2020 (only in german)
