Art Of The Day Weekly
#384 - from 16 April 2015 to 22 April 2015
The world according to Wim Wenders
DUSSELDORF – Movie makers are now exhibited in museums! Following Antonioni last week, we now have Wim Wenders as the subject of a major exhibition. Thanks to his latest work currently on the screens Sel de la terre (The Salt of the Earth), his biography of Sebastião Salgado, we know he loves to travel and to feel disconnected from his reality. Everyone remembers Paris Texas and his very personal vision of Lisbon? He waited though until he turned 70 years old to unveil his life-long passion –photography – in his native city of Dusseldorf. After been rejected from the Fine Arts studies he aimed for in 1967, this lover of painting turned as a last resource to the new movie school in Munich. The rest is history. But throughout those years of movie making the director never renounced to his first love. Throughout his movie wanderings between Palermo, Armenia, the large American Plains or the outskirts of Berlin, he never ceased to take photographs (first in black and white, the in color) of landscapes. They all exude a silent, timeless atmosphere, a sort of disquieting strangeness.
• Wim Wenders. Landscapes. Photographs at the Kunstpalast, from 18 April to 16 August 2015.