HA - Hannah Arendt
Among equals in the public Arena
The poetic touches The Real and unveil Reality, in a way the ‘rational’ can’t. It is something that draws my attention increasingly. Hannah Arendt recited by heart many poems, in German, Greek, English. In her now legendary 1964 interview with Günter Gaus, she says :
“ .... I know a rather large part of German poetry by heart; the poems are always, somehow, in the back of my mind“ .
In an effort to approach her thinking and the Being of her Work, the connection reveals an understanding. The process of thinking needs the poetic to penetrate terrains which are inaccessible by the ordinary mind. Art is a sort of poetry that searches to have a taste of the meaning of our place here. Not unlike a significant architectural space which bestows on its habitants an atmosphere of comprehension, offering them a Place, an order within chaos, a sense of Home. The concept of Natality is poetic, and Art is one of life forces which has this notion of Natality. A Vitality being conjured up to emerge from the eternal return of the same and penetrate Life with the freshness and vividness of the reborn.
a text accompanying a proposal for HA installation. Feb, 2020
“ .... I know a rather large part of German poetry by heart; the poems are always, somehow, in the back of my mind“ .
In an effort to approach her thinking and the Being of her Work, the connection reveals an understanding. The process of thinking needs the poetic to penetrate terrains which are inaccessible by the ordinary mind. Art is a sort of poetry that searches to have a taste of the meaning of our place here. Not unlike a significant architectural space which bestows on its habitants an atmosphere of comprehension, offering them a Place, an order within chaos, a sense of Home. The concept of Natality is poetic, and Art is one of life forces which has this notion of Natality. A Vitality being conjured up to emerge from the eternal return of the same and penetrate Life with the freshness and vividness of the reborn.
a text accompanying a proposal for HA installation. Feb, 2020