ICONIC TURN
Hubert Burda
For the visualization of the West - East- Germany problem, Ulli Kampelmann is using a diptych; West: a stylish lady, without a view out side, probably a art lover with her Dali at home; opposite of that a border soldier, ready for shooting of escapists and searching for espionage victims and still dreaming secrately from a Dali, which was in East Germany times a symbol of the decadent art in capitalism.
Salvador Dali's Exploding Clock
The small shape of the paintings are got choosen to associate to memory pictures.
LINK: More examples of memory pictures from Ulli Kampelmann
Ideas are getting fast passed on and can lead into wide consequences, like to see on the example of the fame East German press conference 9 Nov 1989, as Guenter Schabowski announced for running cameras" peoples from East Germany, which are wishing to travel into the West, can just do it. The audience on tv was instand electrofied and drove with their car to the border, hundreds, thousands until,the border guards opend the gates. Nobody from the East german gouvernment noticed anything what was hapen in that night, until it was too late to make a change.
Abend des 9. Nov 1989
The title of the painting "Iconic Turn" connect on to the definition from Hubert Burda, the fame German publisher, which associates with that term the change into the worldwide fast exchange of pictures, informations (which are also pictures) with our new modern communication systems.
Ulli Kampelmann grow up in East Germany, she escaped in a trunk of a little car and is now working on a documentary for the US marked about that time periode.