“It is somewhat incredible that we seem to manage to live our lives despite all the constant delays, like the Airbus, the Amsterdam north-south subway line, the negotiation process of the Israelis with the Palestinians and The World in a Shell project. It feels like one‘s life is being delayed. Who can possibly have the endurance and patience needed to stay on the ball in this seemingly never-ending story? Where to find the persistence and esteem to clear all the impossibilities and objections from the table? Make no mistakes about it, it remains extremely interesting to see how everything unfolds with the project, how it becomes transparent and all pieces fit into place as if they where precision made. Keep tuned-in to see how the impossible materializes. So long.”
Hans Kalliwoda
German-born artist Hans Kalliwoda has been living and working all around the world for almost twenty-five years, creating numerous exhibitions and installations in the countries he has visited. This nomadic life style is central to his oeuvre, and has played a significant role in the development of his latest project, called The World in a Shell.
This is also a highly personal accomplishment, in which Kalliwoda continues a decades-long tradition of travel and exchange. Much has happened since he first bicycled across Africa in 1984. His '25 Hours a Day' painting series, which was part of his installation 'Living in a shoebox in the middle of the road' and his 'European-art-train project' in the 90s, revealing the thrill of exchange and always invites people into his art.
In the Europartrain project he initiated and directed a mobile art train, collecting railway carriages and “cultural luggage“ for exhibitions and events with local artists on railway stations across different countries in Europe. A crucial aspect of this project was for people of diverse cultural backgrounds to get to know each other’s culture. For each country the train passed through, a separate catalogue was publisched: these catalogues display the result of this cultural cross-pollination and the complimentary documentary art film transmits the dynamics of the project.
Hans regards himself as an underground artist, which probably is due to his craving for mobility and new ventures. The success of his projects is due to his ambitious and passionate drive for accomplishment: riding the cutting edge of the contemporary, searching for the unexplored.
Related links:
www.blindpainters.org
www.blindpainters.org/europartrain
www.blindpainters.org/wonnahave |
