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Gisela Weimann Above all the Stars Work series in progress since 2005

Gisela Weimann Above all the Stars Work series in progress since 2005. God is on His Way. Clips from a leporello book that I made in Berlin in 1990 for an international artists’ books project that was initiated in Japan.

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Gisela Weimann Above all the Stars Work series in progress since 2005

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  1. Gisela WeimannAbove all the StarsWork series in progress since 2005

  2. God is on His Way • Clips from a leporello book that I made in Berlin in 1990 for an international artists’ books project that was initiated in Japan. • God is on his way, he floats in the clouds and rushes through the world – seeing everything, hearing everything but not interfering. • Black and yellow boxes are spread out on the cover and on some pages symbolising dark and light mysteries. The boxes are open but their contents are hidden from our sight.

  3. …two pages from the book God is on His Way When I was about 10 years old, I began to develop an awareness of limited and unlimited space and time. I tried to detect visually both my own physical mortality and the immensity of cosmic space and put a friend of the same age into a state of shock with my problem of perception. She turned her little hands around each other in excitement and repeated in scare: "Nothing in nothing, nothing in nothing" - infinite space, embedded in infinite space, became a synonym for death and ended for me and her in panic and confusion.

  4. First chapter of Gisela Weimann‘s electronic book „Young Cow Liselotte is dreaming of Mars“, part of the online project ‚Mars Patent‘

  5. Young Cow Liselotte is Dreaming of Mars Later, during my art studies in Berlin I ‘devoured’ a science fiction novel almost every night and was fascinated by speculations about life in space, time travel, galaxies light-years distant and the invention of strange creatures and cultures in science fiction films. The first trips to the moon made the subject highly topical, and it were often renowned physicists and researchers who mediated facts, unsuspected connections and unsecured results in popular form. Teleportation and mysterious black holes in space, where ships disappear or land in a future century became a fantastic reality for me.

  6. Stars explode on my canvas I let thick drops of colour fall on my canvas from above. They shatter into splashes of large and tiny fragments that may lump together again into one of my simulated planets like in cosmic processes in the universe.

  7. My box of fallen stars Nothing is lost, not in the house and not in the cosmos. What is cut out in one place is either used as a ‘black hole’ and underlayed with a new background or collaged on top of another.

  8. Cosmos in the drawer Remote worlds, 2005 Alien planets, 2005 Dying stars, 2005 Cosmos, my series of collages started in 2005 is a work-in-progress. Inspired by the publications that accompanied the Einstein Year, the latest theories of quantum physics and the speculations about parallel universes, I began to create my own universe in the drawer. My working process could be compared to the Boulle inlay technique which simulates infinity in a manageable way: each cut out ‘planet’ has resulted in providing me with the material for the next collage. The titles of the unfinished series include: Remote Worlds, Alien Planets, Dying Stars, Supernovae, Milky Way and Worlds behind Worlds.

  9. Milky way I, 2005 Milky way II, 2005

  10. Worlds behind worlds, 2010 Worlds behind worlds I, 2010 Worlds behind worlds II, 2010 Worlds behind worlds III, 2010

  11. Four Winds Ballet Series work in progress by Gisela Weimann since 2006 Notation images from the composition by Marcelo Toledo, 2010 The literary background that is referring to a nocturnal, melancholic mood are Novalis romantic “Hymns to the Night ". The composer based his music images on star constellations of the northern hemisphere: „Notturno is structured on a number of charts related to 21 constellations from the Northern hemisphere. Probably the constellations that Novalis was looking at during the creation of his “Hymns to the Night” (Marcelo Toledo).

  12. Notation bands designed by Gisela Weimann for one scene of the choreography

  13. Notturno Experimental dance project Four Winds Ballet II / Notturno, premiered by Weimann Sisters Limited at Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice on 1 October 2010 Costumes realised by Gisela Weimann and Sascha Bentele The notation is printed on black suits with white luminous paint that gleams mysteriously in ultra-violet light. The four musicians of the group are from left to right: Theo Nabicht, Michael Schlabes, Daniel Ploeger and Winfried Rager.

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