Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

 Author- Brian Hawkeswood . I had set out in search of the exhibition, not knowing precisely where it lay, only that it was somewhere within the half-forgotten quarters of the city where the maps themselves seemed to hesitate, offering not direction but the vague suggestion of movement, like the recollection of a place visited in childhood, indistinct yet hauntingly familiar. The pathway I followed—if it could be called a pathway—led me past a skatepark , that curious contemporary agora where the youth of the city, spanning the years from barely pubescent to nearly adult, enacted their rituals of speed and balance, their rites of bravado. They had even arranged for music and refreshments, as though preparing for a midsummer Dionysia rather than a suburban afternoon. There was a vitality there, no doubt, but already I felt estranged from it—an observer from another world, one less eager to glorify the instant and more inclined to linger over what endured. I had braced myself for th...