Description

We experience the paintings in the Niaux cave, read the Egyptian Book of the Dead, visit Sanssouci, stand on the Lidice hill, walk through Jewish cemeteries, encounter Gryphius' world and Franz Kafka, Paul Klee, Frida Kahlo, Robert Walser. And much more.

Times coincide, time is always the present of the poem. time and memory therefore stands in a double sense: on the one hand for the museum dimension, on the other hand for the biographical aspect of the author's work.

The graphics by Gunther Gerlach in time and memory are encounters with the poems, individual encounters for everyone who reads the poems. Pairing poetry with illustrations means bringing both into a dialogue that readers will listen to. The graphics are ink drawings, abstractions that live from the surface and the lines. They take pictures of the poems, alienate them and thus open them up to a new reality. The graphics in “Time and Memory” are encounters with the poems. And so, in addition to the encounter with the poems, the reader encounters the graphics that refer to them.

Niaux

In the caves

von Niaux

stay the eyes

the animals

in the dark

under the earth

for forty thousand years

opened