Heiner Bastian
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Heiner Bastian
Heiner Bastian is a poet, essayist and curator. His first volume of poetry, Beobachtungen im Luftmeer, was published in 1968 after a reading at the Gruppe 47. Since then, he has published books about Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Anselm Kiefer. Bastian has curated the works of these artists in exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Tate Modern in London, the museums of contemporary art in Los Angeles, Montreal, Fort Worth, San Francisco, among others. He lives in Berlin, and spends part of his time on the Aegean island of Antiparos.
Heiner Bastian is a poet, essayist and curator. His first volume of poetry, Beobachtungen im Luftmeer, was published in 1968 after a reading at the Gruppe 47. Since then, he has published books about Joseph Beuys, Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Anselm Kiefer. Bastian has curated the works of these artists in exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Tate Modern in London, the museums of contemporary art in Los Angeles, Montreal, Fort Worth, San Francisco, among others. He lives in Berlin, and spends part of his time on the Aegean island of Antiparos.
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Year of Publication: 2024
Heiner BastianYear of Publication: 2024
The Memory of Oblivion
»At night I will write down what I’ve seen / And when my journey ends, my shadow will cross your path again.« Heiner Bastian's »journeys« are made up of lyrical images in a dialogue between reality and imagination. His poems take us to the sites of Greek mythology, of literature, and to the realms of Modernist and post-war art: encounters with motifs by Edvard Munch, Picasso, Edward Hopper,...