Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka – Verschrieben & Verzeichnet
Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka – Verschrieben & Verzeichnet
swissnex Boston was thrilled to be a co-organizer and sponsor for the opening celebration and panel discussion of Pavel Schmidt’s Franz Kafka Project on September 29, 2011, in the Sert Gallery of the Harvard Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
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Harvard University is hosting an exhibition of the work of Pavel Schmidt, based on the writings of Franz Kafka: 'The Kafka cycle presented here consists of forty-nine sketches created over the past four years by Pavel Schmidt, Swiss painter, illustrator, and installation artist. The title of each drawing is the name of a character from one of Kafka’s narratives or someone the author personally knew. Schmidt juxtaposes each drawing with a fragment from Kafka’s previously unpublished writings, which are presented in the German with English translations. The texts are not meant to explain the images, nor the images the texts. There is nevertheless a correlation between the works of the two artists: for Kafka, writing was an inner necessity. He created his characters by wrestling with, rejecting, molding, and inventing language—a creative process that Pavel Schmidt deliberately explores in his work. The cycle has been previously exhibited in Zürich, Berlin, Prague, New York, and Princeton.’ |
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During the panel discussion, Profs. Stanley Corngold (Princeton), Judith Ryan (Harvard), Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zurich) and Almut-Barbara Renger (Berlin) presented their critical engagements towards Pavel Schmidt’s project to a large and very enthusiastic audience of approximately 130 Art’s lovers.
The exhibition ends on October 16, 2011.
