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The fresco in Rome's Sistine Chapel was painted from 1536 to 1541, and is one of the key works of Western art history. The blue background is populated by constellations of figures that were unusual at the time: an Apollonian Jesus surrounded by athletic angels and apostles. The religious message does not stand at the foreground; instead, Michelangelo proves himself a master in the art of depicting the movement of individual bodies.
In The Last Judgment in CyBerspace
RongRong & i n r i: The Third Space (Du 28/03/2006 au 29/04/2006)
After exhibitions at the ICP, New York and museum presentations in Chicago and Seattle as well as at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition 'Between Past and Future / New Photography and Video from China' will be opened at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin on March 23rd.
This exhibition includes some works of the artist RongRong, born in 1968, who took these photographs in the early 90ies in Beijing's artists' village 'East Village', a colony given up by the farmers