When painters meet sculptors

I have an appointment at 4.30pm with Bärbel. We want to meet at the glass terrace where →everything started. Bärbel has a car and drives to the stone quarry at the Unterberg where the painters visit the sculptors. But then I fail to keep the appointment because I bump into 2 gentlemen who just arrive at the Mozart Haus.

Doug Ashford (left) just arrived from a kind of 24 hours trip from New York. Sarnath Banerjee (right) just arrived from Berlin. Both have aching backs and sitting on the stairs we talk about the bad food situation at the Summer Academy and the starchitecture as well as the financial constraints at New York's Cooper Union art school where Doug Ashford teaches.

Talking about financial constraints: after missing Bärbel's car drive opportunity yet eager to see the stone quarry I take the bus thinking I could spare to buy a ticket. I happen to meet a ticket inspector on the bus. She wants me to pay a fine of 87 Euro. I can't pay the fine due to financial constraints.

At the final station I ask the bus driver about the stone quarry. He has no idea about any stone quarry. So I walk around for a few seconds to search for someone local with stone-quarry-awareness. Suddenly a grey van comes rapidly around the corner. Who sits behind the wheel? Imagine! It is my main suspect for the →crime at Fotohof! (I still don't know wether that was a coincidence or something else.) I mount the suspect's car and the car mounts the mountain up to the stone quarry.

Once upon a time the stone quarry at Unterberg looked like this:

Now it looks like this:

After a thunderstorm, a delicious feast and a guided tour through the quarry the painters and the sculptors get very convivial. Talks about the advantages and disadvantages of 2D and 3D art production reveal that there is a huge gap between the painters' and the sculptors' worlds. The painter Norbert Bisky says his life is flat like his art, that sculpting is too complex and too complicated for him but that he admires the drawings that sculptors make. The sculptor Peter Niedertscheider says that he has a lot of respect for painters and he confesses that he sometimes paints secretly in oil but that he does not consider the results to be art.

The weather at the stone quarry:

Norbert and Peter discussing:

04/08/14 01:04 Summer Academy 2014