WEIMAR
Günther Uecker at Weimar – Exhibition “Uecker – Hafis – Goethe, Orient und Okzident ist nicht mehr zu trennen” can be seen until the 7th of november at the Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar.
Since 2016 the Günther Uecker exhibition “Huldigung an Hafez” has been traveling through all parts of Iran. So far she has stopped in eight cities: in Shiraz, Tehran, Isfahan, Kerman, Mashhad, Rasht, Bushehr and on the island of Kish. After the Kunsthalle Rostock and the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf, the show can now be seen in the Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler in Weimar.
Günther Uecker in Weimar
Hardly any other city is more predestined for the exhibition “Uecker – Hafis – Goethe, Orient and Occident can no longer be separated” than Weimar. Weimar is the twin city of Shiraz, the birthplace of Hafis, Goethe spent most of his life here and Günther Uecker also has a special relationship with this city. In 2001 he exhibited stage sculptures and optical scores at the Neues Museum Weimar and returned there in 2008 with the highly acclaimed exhibition “„Redepflicht und Schweigefluss“”. His installation “Ein Steinmahl in Buchenwald” in the cellar of the prisoners’ canteen of the former Buchenwald concentration camp is an oppressive memorial with bandaged stones.
In the exhibition, the 42 prints of his homage to Hafez can be admired, supplemented by Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan in the first print and in selected original manuscripts. Hafis’s collection of poems, which inspired both artists, as well as works from Günther Uecker’s extensive, but so far lesser-known bibliophile oeuvre, can also be seen.