Portuguese artists Jorge Lopes, Carolina Serrano, Sofia Seidi, Inês Cabral and Márcio Carvalho will paint posters for an exhibition commemorating 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Five Portuguese artists and two classes from the Portuguese Language and Culture course will participate in one of the initiatives to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by painting posters.
The seven posters will be part of an outdoor installation, which includes posters and banners, and can be seen on November 8 and 9. In total, five thousand pieces will be displayed along part of the four-kilometer wall that passes through the Bradenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie.
“These artists had the challenge of representing on a poster what they think about freedom and democracy in Europe. […]. The posters are very different from each other, each author represented this topic in a completely different way,” highlighted Patrícia Salvação Barreto, cultural advisor at the Portuguese Embassy in Berlin.
In addition, a book will be published with a brief biography of the authors and images of the works. The Portuguese artists participating are Jorge Lopes, Carolina Serrano, Sofia Seidi, Inês Cabral and Márcio Carvalho.
“The objective of Camões Berlin is to join in the celebration of the fall of the wall, democracy, peace and the union that we began to try to build”said Patrícia Salvação Barreto.
“It is a repetition, in much less ambitious terms, of the East Side Gallery, where there is a part of the wall with permanent works. Here it is something more modest, ephemeral, but it is the work that the organization will publish,” he added.
The celebrations also include a “Freedom Festival” in which hundreds of artists will perform simultaneously, on November 9, at various points where the Berlin Wall passed. In this concert, which will last less than an hour, you will hear songs such as “People have the power”, by Patti Smith, “Rockin’ In the free world”, by Neil Young, and “Heroes”, by David Bowie. , who lived several years in the German capital.
Dozens of activities are planned, mainly between November 8 and 10, including exhibitions, debates, conferences and guided tours. During these three days, a “Wall route” which recalls several escapes from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
On November 9, the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 and demolished in 1989, several videos with testimonies of what happened will be shown at the East Side Gallery.
The program also includes a weekend-long film festival showing short films and documentaries about life during the existence of the wall and then during the period of German reunification.
Source: Observadora
