Flanders Fields
Galerie Degenhartt
Stefan Boness: ohne Titel
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'Flanders Fields' stands for the region of Flanders in today's Belgium, where Allied and German soldiers died in hundreds of thousands in the First World War.
Trench warfare left indelible marks, especially in the area around Ypres. Artillery shells and poison gas bombs transformed the landscape into a sea of mud craters; no trees, streams or houses remain to be seen in the aerial photographs of 1918. Today few traces are left to testify to the horrors of war. Apart from the odd bunker, and shells deposited at the side of the road, the fields look just like any other fields in western Europe. But below this surface there are still the scars that the war inflicted on the landscape, many of which can still be traced.
The exhibition and the book that accompanies it are dedicated to the ideal of European unity, and point to the responsibility of the nations of Europe for bringing about a peaceful modus vivendi. The exhibition opens on 11.11.2008, the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
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Artist(s)
Stefan Boness
Duration of the exhibition
12.11.2008 - 3.01.2009
Vernissage
11.11.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Di-Sa 13-18 h
and by arrangement
Location
Galerie Degenhartt
Ackerstraße 14/15
10115 Berlin
T 0049 30 27908704
Public transport connections
U Rosenthaler Platz
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