Peter Greenaway: Goltzius Dis Voir
“Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius is the second installment in his Dutch Masters series. Its story runs thus: sometime during the winter of 1590, the Dutch printmaker Hendrik Goltzius holds an interview with Margrave of Alsace, in the grand library at his castle on the Rhine. Goltzius needs money in order to build a printing press to print erotic illustrated books, and he entices Margrave of Alsace into paying for an extraordinary book of pictures of Old Testament Biblical stories, by dramatizing the erotic stories of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah and John the Baptist and Salome—stories in which themes of incest, adultery, female entrapment and necrophilia abound. Margrave’s court is completely seduced by Goltzius’ titillating storytelling, and swiftly sinks into a pit of lechery and religious politics, until the court is forced to buy its way out, and Goltzius can begin his ambitious endeavor.”
A Dress & a Gig Poster (Kate McCagg@Polyvore)
How smart are these?? …SO smart, that’s how smart!
For his first solo show in the Netherlands, Riccardo Previdi (b. Milan 1974; lives and works in Berlin) analyzes the unique style of the Vleeshal while at the same time juxtaposing and drawing connections between different aspects of the Gothic style. The show’s title, “Fraktur” (from the Latin fractus: “broken up”), refers to a particular type of Gothic script (also known as “blackletter”). This was the script in which – thanks to the invention of movable type – Johannes Gutenberg printed the B42 (42-line Bible) in 1455 in Mainz, Germany, more commonly referred to as the “Gutenberg Bible.”
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