At Lake Tornow
64 x 88 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Foto: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
und VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Boitzenburg Forest
87 x 72 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Foto: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
und VG Bildkunst, Bonn

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Pearls in the Sand of the Mark Brandenburg

Pearls in the Sand of the Mark Brandenburg
mise-en-scène, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1982
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

PEARLS IN THE SAND OF THE MARK BRANDENBURG is a mise-en-scène. It takes place in a room whose walls have been painted a dark red. On its four walls hang 12 paintings—each about 20 by 30 inches—showing landscapes from the Mark Brandenburg. The paintings are colored in delicate greyish pastel tones. It appears as if a heavy layer of dust had settled on them over time and now it is as if the original colors The images appear remote yet familiar. The paintings are mounted in wide, matte blue frames on which here and there gold can be seen shimmering through.

A red velour carpet covers the floor in front of the paintings, which are illuminated so that they shine brightly against the room’s dark red background. Low, upholstered visitor seats have been placed in the center of the room. To prevent outside light or noise from penetrating the room, the entrance has been closed with a heavy velvet curtain.

Barbara Nemitz 1982

Postscript
The western part of Berlin was surrounded by the Wall at that time. For the exhibition, posters with the names of the places on the other side were put up. They seemed strange.

In Spring at Lake Stechlin
72 x 53 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Barbara Nemitz and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

At Lake Döllensee near Joachimstal
72 x 52 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Foto: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
und VG Bildkunst, Bonn

At Lake Tornow
64 x 88 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Foto: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
und VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Boitzenburg Forest
87 x 72 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Foto: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
und VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Spreewald I
75 x 58 cm, screen painting on cotton, designed wooden frame, 1981
Foto: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
und VG Bildkunst, Bonn

At Havel River
screen painting on cotton,
designed wooden frame, 1981
photo: Rainer Maria Schopp
© Copyright Barbara Nemitz
and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Pearls in the Sand of the Mark Brandenburg
mise-en-scène, detail
Exhibition:
Blue – Color of Distance, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg 1990
Photo: Lossen
©Barbara Nemitz
and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Pearls in the Sand of the Mark Brandenburg
mise-en-scène, detail
Exhibition:
Blue – Color of Distance, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg 1990
Photo: Lossen
©Barbara Nemitz
and VG Bildkunst, Bonn

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