Tag: Asja Zakhareva
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‘Queer Desire is Wild; I am a Deer’ by Nilbar Güreş
No 1 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. How can music and art represent the drama of sexual repression? Nilbar Güreş explores this important topic in a theatrical, symbolic, and playful way. Her painting features a few vivid and meaningful symbols: A deer having sex with a…
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Self-Contemporary by Evi Vingerling
No 4 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. Between two worlds. What music exists at the boundary of abstraction and imagery? Evi Vingerling has chosen a challenging stylistic approach. Her art works are neither total abstractions, nor realistic landscapes with fully recognizable objects and shapes. Her style…
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‘Composition XIV’ by Piet Mondriaan
No 3 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. How can music articulate the essence of abstract painting? Compositie XIV by Piet Mondriaan captures his style in a phase of transition. In search of his artistic identity, Mondriaan makes a clear reference to cubism with its volumetric geometry…
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‘Interrogation (what kind of bird are you?)’ by Max Ernst
No 2 from the Impressions series commissioned by the Van Abbemuseum. View the original painting here. How might music convey the hidden narratives of art? Two bird/human figures are sketched with black lines on an expressive, reddish background. Innocent, somewhat naive, comic, cartoon-like images are cheerfully smiling and cuddling. It might look sweet. But knowing…
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Impressions project 2021-2026
Asja Zakhareva first described the idea that was to become Impressions to me in 2020 – writing music for artworks, serving both as an interpretive tool and as a part of an auditory experience for those with visual impairment. We took the idea in 2021 to the Van Abbemuseum, which has been working for years…