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Marion Kalter: Silent Piece

27 Nov 2013 - 26 Jan 2014

Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Roland Barthes at home in Paris, 1979
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Pierre Boulez at the Cité
de la Musique in Paris, 1996
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Luciano Berio listening to his piece conducted by Pierre Boulez during rehearsal in Paris, 1989
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
William S. Burroughs at the Centre Pompidou Paris, 1977
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
John Cage in Paris at the home of Dorothea Tanning, 1981
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Emil M. Cioran at home in Paris, 1982
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Aaron Copland at home
in the Catskills Mountains,
New York, 1986
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Martha Graham at the Opera
Garnier in Paris, 1984
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
Marion Kalter
Pierre Henry at home in Paris, 1985
Schwarzweiß-Fotografie auf Barytpapier
Ca. 30 x 40 cm

© Marion Kalter
An exhibition on the ZKM_Museum Balcony

In the exhibition "Silent Piece" works of the French photographer Marion Kalter (*1951) are presented. Over the quarter of a century she has created portraits of musicians, music theorists, philosophers, among others, of Francis Bacon, Roland Barthes, Pierre Boulez, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jacques Derrida, Mauricio Kagel, Claude Levi-Strauss, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Susan Sontag, Wolfgang Rihm and Iannis Xenakis.

"To browse through the album of Marion Kalter is much more than to look at portraits of musicians, maybe still lifes (instruments or scores), it is to enter in deep contact with the impenetrable world of music and musicians."
(Pierre Boulez)

The film "À la croisée des chemins de Pierre Boulez" (2013) directed by Sacha Goldman was produced to accompany the exhibition. It shows Boulez with the portraits by Marion Kalter, which evoke memories of Pierre Boulez on his companions and the development of New Music.

Curator: Sacha Goldman

Program
Sat, November 30, 2013
À la croisée des chemins de Pierre Boulez
Film Screening in French with German subtitles
[5 p.m., ZKM_Lecture Hall, admission free]
 

Tags: Francis Bacon, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis