Produktdetails
- Verlag
- EDITION digital
Pekrul, Gisela, u. Sren Pekrul - Erschienen
- 2018
- Sprache
- English
- Seiten
- 123
- Infos
- 123 Seiten
Aquarelle
236 mm x 235 mm - ISBN
- 978-3-95655-897-9
Inhaltsverzeichnis
REFLECTIONSFarm with view of Achill IslandDoona, BallycroySpringtime in DoonaView of Rosturk Castle, Clew BayJohn's Row, WestportWestport, OktagonWestport, James StreetStill-Life with CottageSTILL-LIFE WITH COTTAGEFishing for salmon in the Valley of DelphiAt second glanceHalf way to HeavenLEGACYDebate at the boat-house, SligoSruhill Lough, Achill IslandRosses Point, SligoMullaghmore, SligoGlowing PrimrosesLonely BoatsCastelhill Church, MayoStarlings above Tullaghan BayFahy Castle, BallycroyFahy Castle with view of SlievemoreConnemarasheepBOGLANDROADBundoran, DonegalMayos MountainsheepsKillalaKillala, HarbourUnder the rainbowBurrishole Abbey, Clew BayClew BayClew BayCathedral NewportNewport, MayoExcellent connectionsWALKING TALKINGBirr Garden with CastleCovered walk, Birr GardenSouthwind, Passage EastSummer in FebruaryWild geese at Mayo's CoastlineDear Life, Bina McLoughlinDEAR LIFEWords of Comfort, Friedhof FaulmoreWORDS OF COMFORTCountry Life in MayoRush Hour, illuminatedLough Arrow, LeitrimRainy DayRainy DayHook LighthouseBefore the CatchLast Credits, Inverin, ConnemaraLAST CREDITSLast View, LeenaneKillary HarbourDreamhouse 1. Lower SkyroadDreamhouse 2Fishermen's FriendsTony's Cottage, LeenaneLittle Harbour. Salin, Mullet HalbinselSwinging Town BelmulletUnshorn. In the MoorCoastline in the fog, Killary HarbourSignals in the MoorLETTERMORE ISLANDBefore the sailFlotilla, Passage EastCosy Port, DunmoreKillary Harbour near AsleaghLough MaskThe way home. Mullet HalbinselCashel TownKilmacthomasRock of CashelCashel. PanoramaPalaver. Mullet PeninsulaLOVELY DAYLeenane, Main roadView from the Upper Skyroad, ConnemaraJanny's Cottage, ConnemaraThe Twelve Bens, ConnemaraPERSPECTIVEBlacksod Bay. Mullet PeninsulaAlbatrosses above FaulmoreIn the mud-flats. Murveagh, DonegalFishing Port Killibegs, DonegalCaughtAgain and again: Peepholes of the Lord
Textauszug
Once, when asked about her artistic concepts, Helga Kaffke said: "...to paint a landscape like a portrait and a portrait like a landscape."The relentless blue of southern skies never tempted this painter abroad. She worked in the reserved expanses of the European north, in later years more and more in the loneliness of the west of Ireland. She loved its invincible light, whose source remains in darkness, when the storm tears slate-grey clouds into shreds in an overcast February sky. Beneath it, in scrubby bog grass, pink and blue sheep are blossoming. The gleaming bogwater reflects serenely a painter, who even in memory never claimed indifference. In those on-paper resurrected landscapes we find it all: bog grass and moss, rock and fern, sheep pink and blue. And people? Those too, but mostly their traces: in the skilfully woven complexity of electric lines, in cottages not just dreaming of sea views (location, location, location)...Melancholic vitality and vital melancholy - sometimes the boundaries blur.This is the ambivalence in these works of art - you can never be certain if what you see is truly there or if you intuit that which is neither hidden nor obvious on the surface. Beings, for example, who have become so much an integral part of the landscape that they can only appear as part of it, impossible to substract from it without dissolving it in its entirety.This is a way to create a riddle from a solution. Find and you will seek. And while we, the observers, look at such a painting, relays are closing in our brain, connections are made, in subtle ways, we can trace: in ourselves. This is a consequence.The painter who portrays a landscape in this way can remain serene, when a mainstream trendsetter lectures her about the rules of the art market.
Langtext
In the art scene of Schwerin their names were as well known as the State Theater, the museum or the castle of that city - Helga Kaffke, painter; Gabriele Berthel, author. That was during the last quarter of the past century. In the cultural news of the current capital of the county their names can't be found. Both artists haven't lived in Germany for more than twenty years.First they looked for the centre of their lives in France - and then found it - since the millennium - on the North-West coast of Ireland, in Mayo. They settled there, got married, worked."May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back." This old Irish blessing didn't always keep its promise: the wind was often a gale and shook "the old house that rose out of the rocks". The two artists counteracted this with their passion: for life, for painting, for literature. They had their talents and a backpack full of knowledge and experience, gathered at the colleges in Leipzig - tied forever to their country of birth, from which they had become estranged.The painter Helga Kaffke died in the winter of 2017. Since her death her spouse Gabriele Berthel shares her life with thousands of pages.Watercolours, colour on paper, portraits of landscapes, people and animals, in Kaffke-style. Kaffke-style is a mark of quality. Nobody painted watercolours like her: falling lines, sloping verticals, seemingly so chaotic, one already imagines the fall of Carthage - and yet somewhere a glimpse of sky remains. Magnificent. Gabriele Berthel paints with words; equally magnificent and emotional until it hurts. She paints in prose and poetry, mixes fairytale and reality, and covers earthly realism with melancholy.Thus a book is created, in a remote place of the world where in comparison to sky and sea a person appears to be a dwarf. A book about love and life and the strength to endure it, for every place in world."In this place her life was always blowing in the wind -jacket like trousers between two brittle poles.And she keeps still, facing the earth - she knows it well -it was her life worth."Helga Kaffke. Gabriele Berthel. For a long time their names had vanished from the cultural news. This is about to change.In Schwerin and other places.
Über den AutorIn
Gabriele BerthelBorn in 1948 in Schmölln, Germany. Five years studies at the Technical University in Chemnitz. Graduated Engineer. Three years open university course at the Literary Institute in Leipzig. Writer, Collagist.Books published: "Short and mature" (edition), "Departureof truth" (Texts and Collages), "The deviltry reaches further than you believe" (Collages to Proverbs of Klaus Bernhardt), "Who brushes the hair in the soup?" (together with the illustrator Helga Kaffke), "VALSE MUSETTE - Rouen en miniature" (stories to water colour miniatures of Helga Kaffke).Single exhibitions in Germany include Chemnitz, Dresden, Erfurt, Gera, Hamburg ... Single Exhibition in Belgium (Eupen).Group shows include Ireland (Ballina), Gabrovo (Bulgaria) and in Germany Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Dresden, Flensburg, Nürnberg ...Lives since long years in an old farmhouse in Ballycroy, Co. Mayo.