I wanted to go back to my last entry and think about Hanno Rauterberg's closing bit on the Berlin-MoMA collaboration:
„Das sind Bilder, die lange eine heile Welt meinten“, sagt Angela Schneider, die Leiterin der Nationalgalerie. „An denen konnte sich die frühe Bundesrepublik orientieren.“ Und ihr Chef, Peter-Klaus Schuster, schwärmt, die Ausstellung offenbare „zehn Jahre nach dem Abzug der Alliierten eine fast schon legendäre Sympathie, welche Berlin und New York immer füreinander empfunden haben“. Im Zeichen der Kunst geht’s zurück in die Zeit der Luftbrücke – das MoMA in Berlin ist das MoMA der Nostalgie.["These are pictures that suggest a safe/intact world," says Angela Schneider, head of the NG. "Years ago, the Federal Republic was able to orient itself on them." And her Boss, Peter-Klaus Schuster, gushes that the exhibition reveals, "ten years after the Allies' withdrawal, the almost legendary sympathy that Berlin and New York have always had for one another." Under the auspices of Art, we return to the time of the Airlift - the MoMA in Berlin is the MoMA of nostalgia.]
It strikes me that, if we compare the NG's last big show, Kunst in der DDR, to this guest show from NY, there really are interesting parallels to be made. Does the MoMA show represent the Cold-War West, where KidDDR was the Cold-War East? Interesting that Rauterberg brings in nostalgia; there were so many accusations of that during the GDR show. More on this later.
Posted by Heather at February 16, 2004 09:33 AM
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