Invisible Nature, a show of contemporary Japanese art, was initiated by a Prague art historian, Ivona Raimanová, the Head of the Exhibition Department at the Czech Republic’s Presidential Office at the time.
With this exhibition, two names became interconnected: the artist Pablo Picasso’s and that of collector Peter Ludwig. The latter, as a young art historian, wrote his thesis on Picasso, quite unusual in post-war Germany.
During a discussion with Éva Köves, concerning her plans of an action for the Gallery by Night event series, she told me that she would actually prefer to paint a room according to her obsessions: illusory depictions of planes and shadows, projections and contrasts, delicate transitions and sharp
The familiar, Made Strange by the intervention of artists serves to extend our perceptions of the material and metaphysical worlds.
Endangered Species: 2319–2322 by Yoko Ono, created in 1992, was first exhibited at Stiftung Starke, Berlin. The work consists of 22 pieces, its central motif being four bronze figures seated on a bench with a dog.