Martin Schwenk’s The Secret Life of Plants Opens at Number 35

NEW YORK, NY.- Number 35 presents new sculptures by Düsseldorf-based artist Martin Schwenk. This is his second exhibition with the gallery. In “The Language of Flowers” of 1929, Georges Bataille assesses that the language of flowers is contradictory: the above ground part of the plant distinguishes itself through purity and beauty, the opposite expresses itself in the root, its ugly dirtiness and proliferation. Bataille points out that because only the plant’s upper part would be included in civilization, its materiality [...]

Splendour and Everyday Life in the Byzantine Empire Explored at Exhibition in Bonn

BONN.- Presenting more than 600 magnificent and historically meaningful exhibits and important artefacts from collections and archaeological excavations the exhibition shed light on many aspects of the history, archaeology and art of the Byzantine Empire. It will offer an overview of the “Byzantine Millenium” (from the foundation of Constantinople by Constantine the Great in 324 A.D. to the conquest by the Ottomans in 1453), but will concentrate above all on the prospering of the Empire from the time of Justinian [...]