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The glue during the war
Exhibition February 6 − June 3, 2018
The Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern has collected more than one hundred works by the Swiss-German surrealist, showing his "dark side". Through many often fantastic works exposure "The glue during the war" talks about the experience of the master during the First world war. Abstract images in these paintings are often obscured blood and death.
Klee was conscripted into the German army in 1916. Fortunately for the wizard, he was determined not to the front, and sent to airfields far behind the firing line, where he was responsible for the Finance and put the template drawings and inscriptions on airplanes in the aviation corps.
The exhibition includes more than 130 works, including paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and even glove puppets with roots in the expressionist, cubist and surrealist movements. Almost all the works taken from the collection of the glue; a portion of loans provided Museum of the three countries in the German Lörrach, in particular, the materials with which the artist worked at that time, I was wearing a military uniform.
Abstraction, Klee was associated with images of weapons. The arrows indicate the "flechette" – metal rods the size of a little more pencil. With one end sharpened, the other did a longitudinal recess, a kind of tail to accelerate. Arrows packs were dropped from airplanes at low level flight over the enemy. Dropping the weapon uttered a sharp whistle and easy to break through the wooden boards of thickness up to 15 cm, steel helmets, or human skull. And angular zigzags signify oppression, fear, threat and mass destruction of people in war time.
"People often think of the glue as the wizard who created his own mystical world of dreams, – says the curator of the exhibition Fabien Eggelhoffer. But he commented on politics, society, and the realities of war, and I wanted to present it."
Klee was conscripted into the German army in 1916. Fortunately for the wizard, he was determined not to the front, and sent to airfields far behind the firing line, where he was responsible for the Finance and put the template drawings and inscriptions on airplanes in the aviation corps.
The exhibition includes more than 130 works, including paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and even glove puppets with roots in the expressionist, cubist and surrealist movements. Almost all the works taken from the collection of the glue; a portion of loans provided Museum of the three countries in the German Lörrach, in particular, the materials with which the artist worked at that time, I was wearing a military uniform.
Abstraction, Klee was associated with images of weapons. The arrows indicate the "flechette" – metal rods the size of a little more pencil. With one end sharpened, the other did a longitudinal recess, a kind of tail to accelerate. Arrows packs were dropped from airplanes at low level flight over the enemy. Dropping the weapon uttered a sharp whistle and easy to break through the wooden boards of thickness up to 15 cm, steel helmets, or human skull. And angular zigzags signify oppression, fear, threat and mass destruction of people in war time.
"People often think of the glue as the wizard who created his own mystical world of dreams, – says the curator of the exhibition Fabien Eggelhoffer. But he commented on politics, society, and the realities of war, and I wanted to present it."
