![]() Torn between hearing Pollak’s spellbinding tale and the urgent mission to save the archaeologist from certain annihilation, the Vatican’s anxious messenger presses him to make haste and depart. Morgan and the Austro-Hungarian emperor after his own Jewishness barred him from an academic career, and finally his spectacular discovery of the missing arm from the majestic ancient sculpture of Laocoön and his sons. Pollak’s visitor is obliged to take a seat and listen as he recounts his life story: how he studied archaeology in Prague, his passion for Italy and Goethe, how he became a renowned antiquities dealer and advisor to great collectors like J. But Pollak shows himself in no hurry to leave his home and accept the eleventh-hour offer of refuge. dispatches an envoy to a nearby palazzo to bring Ludwig Pollak and his family to safety within the papal premises. Having been alerted to the Nazi plan to round up the city’s Jewish population the next day, Monsignor F. A great read."-Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art October 16, 1943, inside the Vatican as darkness descends upon Rome. Download Pollak S Arm books, "Enthralling. In 2017, he participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster and the 57th Venice Biennale.Pollak S Arm Der Deutsche Roadmovie Roman Im Kontext Gesellschaftlicher Umbr Che Peter Handkes Der Kurze Brief Zum Langen Abschied Christian Krachts Faserland Und Thomas Klupps Paradiso by Hans von Trotha, Pollak S Arm Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Tanaka officially represented Japan at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and was Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year in 2015. His work has been presented around the world, with recent exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Graz (2017), the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin (2015), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014), the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo (2013), the Museum of Art, Seoul (2013), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012), the Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2012), Centre A, Vancouver (2010), the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (2009), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007), and elsewhere. Koki Tanaka lives and works in Kyoto, Japan. ![]() An accompanying monograph will be released by JRP|Ringier during the second half of 2018. ![]() The exhibition is curated by Heike Munder, director, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and is the artist’s first solo show in Switzerland. “Live speakers”-representatives of the art and academic worlds whom visitors are encouraged to approach-will be available for the entire duration of the presentation to foster further discussion in a variety of formats. The exhibition provides a framework for continuing the exchange of ideas Tanaka initiates. The films that grew out of the project illustrate that coexistence and mutual appreciation are possible if we talk to each other: private as well as public conversations are key. Shadowed by the artist and his camera team, they travel to several locations in Tokyo to grapple with questions of (their own cultural) identity and how to take a stand against the simplistic and selective worldviews of racist groups. The project centers on a series of conversations in various settings between two protagonists who have not met before. Realized especially for his exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the project Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie) (2018) focuses on an example from Tanaka’s native country, the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese, to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination. Tochigi, Japan, 1975) focus on how we live together in societies. In view of the worldwide rise of nationalism, populism, and xenophobia, the artistic social studies of Koki Tanaka (b. Koki Tanaka: Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie) (Migros Museum, Zurich) Courtesy of the artist, Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), Aoyama Meguro (Tokyo) Koki Tanaka, Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie), 2018, production photo.
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