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Exposition Anselme Kiefer
Du 26 mars au 29 octobre 2022, l’art contemporain entre au Palais des Doges, pour l’exposition qui sera le pivot de la cinquième édition de MUVE Contemporaneo, une exposition biennale de la Fondation des musées civiques de Venise qui a pour clé la réflexion sur la relation de l’art d’aujourd’hui avec les musées.
From March 26 to October 29, 2022, contemporary art enters the Doge's Palace, for the exhibition that will be the pivot of the fifth edition of MUVE Contemporaneo, a biennial exhibition of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation that has as its key the reflection on the relationship of today's art with museums.
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Wandering around the cobbled streets of Stemnitsa, our thoughts travel to the uninterrupted past, tangled between myths and history - as always happens in Greece.
Historians have identified Stemnitsa with the ancient Arcadian city Hypsous founded by a son of Lycaon. Already deserted by the 2nd century AD, when Pausanias visited the area and wrote about her ruins near Thyraion (present Pavlia), Zoetia and Paroria.
In the 7th and 8th century, Slavs settled in the Peloponnese. The name Stemnitsa has Slavic roots and means "woodland". After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire occupied the Peloponnese. Because of its remote location, Stemnitsa served as a relatively safe haven from the Ottomans, and it became a centre of Greek culture and religion. The first mention, some say, of the word Stemnitsa, was found in Ottoman taxation documents dated 1512-1515, where the number of families appeared to be about 120.
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View of the mansion at Nymans Gardens, West Sussex. You will have noticed that the frontal part of the building has been preserved as a ruin and that only one of the side wings is still occupied. This is a result of a fire in 1947, a calamity the owners, the Messel family, never really recovered from. In the early 1950s, the whole estate was acquired by the National Trust. The point of the estate had always been to create an alternative world of beauty - far away from noisy cities and dirty industries. The building may look medieval, but it was built in the first half of the 19th century. When the Messels (stock brokers from Germany who had made their fortune in Britain and, later, liaised with nobility) purchased the place in the 1890s, they followed this trajectory and turned the gardens into a horticultural paradise. Consequently, when the National Trust preserves the estate, it also preserves a dream.
"Que le meilleur gagne" est non seulement une piètre interprétation de la théorie de l'évolution, mais surtout une très mauvaise idéologie pour maintenir la cohésion d'un groupe, et a fortiori la vie sur terre.
Pourquoi vouloir écraser l'autre ? Pourquoi chercher à ce point la solitude, la division et l'aliénation ? Ce mythe ne serait-il pas en réalité un puissant instrument de domination ?
La victoire culturelle de cette idéologie ne s'est pas faite en un claquement de doigts; elle a mobilisé pendant des décennies des forces et des sommes d'argent considérables.
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Texte : Pablo Servigne & Gauthier Chapelle.
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Lieu : Leukerbad, Suisse.
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The ruins of Whitby Abbey crown a clifftop over the historic fishing port of Whitby. The headland has hosted St Hild’s Anglo-Saxon monastery, the great medieval abbey and a Stuart mansion, and it’s long been the focus of myths and legends.
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII during the dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1545.
Since that time, the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland. Since the 20th century, the substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage. The site museum is housed in Cholmley House, a 17th-century banqueting hall repurposed by design studio Stanton Williams in 2002.
Streoneshalh
The monastery was first founded in AD 657 by Oswy, King of Northumbria, as Streoneshalh, the older name for Whitby. He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess.
The double monastery of monks and nuns was home (614–680) to the great Northumbrian poet Cædmon.
A lidar view of Whitby Abbey and surrounding archaeological residues.
In 664, the Synod of Whitby took place at the monastery to resolve the question of whether the Northumbrian church would adopt and follow the Easter dating of Iona, the 84-year cycle which had been previously used in Rome and on the continent, or the new 19-year cycle which had recently been adopted at Rome. There was also discussion of what kind of tonsure clergy and monks should use. The decision, with the support of King Oswy, was for adopting the newer Roman Easter calculation, as was used in other English kingdoms to the south.
Streoneshalch monastery was laid to waste by Danes in successive raids between 867 and 870 under Ingwar and Ubba, and remained desolate for more than 200 years. A locality named 'Prestebi' was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, which may be a sign that religious life was revived in some form after the Danish raids. 'Witebi' (Whitby) is also mentioned. Prestebi, from Old Norse, means a habitation of priests. The old monastery given to Reinfrid comprised about 40 ruined monasteria vel oratoria, similar to Irish monastic ruins with numerous chapels and cells.
Whitby.
Reinfrid, a soldier of William the Conqueror, became a monk and travelled to Streoneshalh, which was then known as Prestebi or Hwitebi, from Old Norse, meaning "White settlement". He approached William de Percy for a grant of land, who gave him the ruined monastery of St. Peter with two carucates of land, to found a new monastery. Serlo de Percy, the founder's brother, joined Reinfrid at the new monastery, which followed the Benedictine rule. The greater part of de Percy's building was pulled down and the monastery was rebuilt on a larger scale in the 1220s.
The Benedictine abbey thrived for centuries as a centre of learning. This second monastery was destroyed by Henry VIII in 1540 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The abbey was bought by Sir Richard Cholmley. It remained in the Cholmley family and their descendants, the Strickland family. The Strickland family passed it to the UK government in 1920. The ruins are now owned and maintained by English Heritage.
In December 1914, Whitby Abbey was shelled by the German battlecruisers Von der Tann and Derfflinger, whose crew "were aiming for the Coastguard Station on the end of the headland. Scarborough and Hartlepool were also attacked. The abbey buildings sustained considerable damage during the ten-minute attack.
This Milky Way photo was taken close to a popular beach with hundreds of visitors and cars by day and yet having an excellent night sky after the onset of astronomical twilight. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene.
Some of the most beautiful stories of ancient times refer to the silvery band of the Milky Way - a celestial river comprised by the light of billions of stars, that has traveled for thousands of years to reach our eyes. This majestic arc of light is more clearly visible on summer nights, when our gaze is towards the center of the Milky Way, which lies at about 25 thousand light years away - the brightest part of the band just above the tree and to left of the “Dark Horse” silhouette.
This band is bisected by obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, thus forming the “Great Galactic Rift”. The interstellar gas and dust gave birth to everything else in the Universe, including us - we are all made of stardust after all.
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It is impossible not to delve deep into Norse mythology after visiting these places! If you lay eyes on spots like this one on the Lofoten islands all of a sudden you understand all the deep connotations of old Germanic/Norse mythology. Their myth, where the world was created from Fire and Ice, all of a sudden make total sense.
Sculpture of Romulus and Remus suckling on a she-wolf on a column on Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy.
iPhoneography on iPhone 7 Plus; Prescott, Arizona; January 26, 2018. Two PANO images blended in Superimpose app.
Island in the middle of River Tejo. Santarém, Portugal
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“Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.” Kahlil Gibran
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The green vine snake is diurnal and mildly venomous. The reptile normally feeds on frogs and lizards using its binocular vision to hunt. They are slow moving, relying on camouflaging as a vine in foliage. The snake expands its body when disturbed to show a black and white scale marking. Also, they may open their mouth in threat display and point their head in the direction of the perceived threat. There is a widespread myth in parts of southern India that the species uses its pointed head to blind its human victims.