'Visions in Motion', 30,000 union messages for the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The street of June 17 (Straße des 17), which crosses the magnanimous Tiergarten and reaches the Brandenburg Gate , is witness these days (and until November 10) of a great artistic installation that commemorates the 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
30,000 messages, written on large ribbons of different colors, flutter over the skies of the city. They are messages of unity from those who lived through the fall of the wall or from those who were already born in a united Berlin. Messages to revive the memory , so as not to forget situations that should not happen again.
VISIONS IN MOTION
'Visions in motion' is the name that the American artist Patrick Shearn (author of the Poetic Kinetics series of large-scale works) has awarded the project. The non-profit art company Kulturprojekte Berlin proposed to the artist to make a large format intervention within the festival 30 years of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989, the Fall of the Wall.
Shearn was based on the banners that Berliners raised in September 1989 in Leipzig (in the GDR , the part to the east of the wall) during the so-called Peaceful Revolution, which soon after led to the almost spontaneous destruction of the wall.
The idea of him, recovering that form of protest, through a concise message on a cardboard ; but this time, through small reflective colored flags with messages from those who want to quit. And all, waving the skies towards the Brandenburg Gate, one of the great protagonists that night November 9, 1989.
'Visions in Motion' at the Brandenburger Tor
Total, a work of art of 18,000 square meters , for which 3,000 meters of rope were used, 36,000 meters of ripstop nylon Y 120,000 flags in the wind. 30,000 of them , with messages like the following:
"The day the Wall fell, exactly 30 years ago, was and still is the most beautiful day of my life. It's just fantastic to have witnessed something like this. It's nice to know that it was peaceful and that it remains so." ", Norbert (61 years old, from Prague) .
Or also the message from Carolina, a 28-year-old Mexican: "The walls do not prevent people from passing: they lock you in. Long live the fall of the Berlin wall."
These messages could be sent online through the festival website (since September 25) but also in person while Patrick Shearn coordinated the installation.
The result is a great flag of flags, that instead of dividing the city, it serves as a constant flow of ideas, of messages about borders, without interrupting the daily life of the city, without separating. Everything flows down this great avenue and up to the Brandenburg Gate.
patrick shearn comments in an official press release: "As an artist I am deeply moved by the invitation to translate such a decisive moment in the history of humanity in a physical form. Given the circumstances that we live in the world today, I feel that It is time to be bold, to unite all under one voice, and of throw our dreams into the sky for the world to see ".
The different messages wave in Berlin
The different messages wave in Berlin