The Art Center Berlin opens officially this Wednesday a major piece of sculpture that Dr. Thomas Tyllack, the director of the Center has requested from Angel Orensanz to unify the various shows that presently the Center offer. The Center celebrates also celebrates the critical days of the tumbling of the Wall, the reunification of Berlin and of Germany.
The Berlin Art Center is located a few meters away from the Brandenburg Gate, the heart of Germany for almost 200 years. Angel Orensanz commented today at the Berlin Arts Center that Berlin was the heart of Europe, at least its cultural heart, for more than one hundred years. That is why he had designed his sculpture as a sphere/ heart. That is what Berlin has become again right now. Twenty years after the tumbling of the Wall and the German reunification, Europe appears once more whole and reunified.
Dr. Mattias Tyllak, commented with glee on the concept of the sphere in the philosophy of Hegel, who, from Berlin, right there in the Mitte, spoke with depth and eloquence of the spherical condition of the world.
The Angel Orensanz Foundation in downtown New York was the official locus selected by the German Consulate in New York twenty years ago to celebrate splendidly the tumbling of the Wall, the reunification of Berlin and the reunification of Germany. It is well known that the building that today constitutes the home of the Angel Orensanz Foundation was designed and built by an architect from Berlin, Alexander Saeltzer, (1849) and was for many years the heart of the cultural life of the Germans in the USA. The dialectics of the world as a sphere and the progress of time.
