The current posture. Apparently not fantastic enough on wednesday sean scully took back his offer saying ive reached a clear agreement that the constant of cars from this agreement was not honored therefore i am unable to get the paintings. So what happened 2 years ago the museum exhibited some of skellies works the artist was so thrilled that he offered to donate his collection. I had to the shift all right but he attached demands to his donation demands that wed have to discuss that i couldnt just accept with no ifs ands or buts i thought saddam kindly name vo or have been around. In exchange for the donations scully wanted the museum to build a permanent 1000 square meter display of at least half his collection its the kind of commitment germanys Museums Association advises against scully wanted to display in a new museum space that will eventually replace this courthouse but the red tape associated with moving the court and taking down a protective Building Construction might not start for another decade. By which point the artist would be 85. 00 scully felt he was being strung along the citys mayor agrees. You have a long road but 1st they negotiated the conditions for years making it more and more clear that they were less interested then they proposed a timeline that was unacceptable to the artist from the very beginning. And that was their way of showing the artist that they didnt really appreciate his offer i mean you have to 1st be. On your board of me so wish. In a statement sean scully said there is no such thing as a flexible gift hes now looking for another home for his 100000000 euro collection. The animated film dragon rider tells the tale of a fire drink or young dragon who wants to find the room of heaven a legendary place where all dragons are safe even from humans dragon writer is one of the very few new movies hitting the big screen here in europe its based on a Childrens Book by an author you may have heard of. Flying dragons race across the screen and daring maneuvers so who came up with the story that was intended to be a phone call is the author of global bestsellers in the fantasy genre. She started her career as an illustrator but eventually wanted to create her own stories. Topic and now but not write for children but adults are welcome to read my books too it makes me kind of an outcast in the world of literature as children themselves are but i can live just fine with that. Shes hurting more than 70 books which have sold more than 26000000 copies worldwide. Humans. In. Body read the jacket is to that heaven when they relate to the look up to them get it right. Now a film adaptation of her 997. 00 book dragon rider is being released in europe its the story of the dragon fire during a brownie named sorrow and a boy named ben who embark on a journey together its a dangerous one but the dragon is determined to find out where he comes from. A good to be sure but the. Area from korea is satisfied with simply writing about breath taking adventures. She leads a quiet life on a ranch in malibu fulfilling a lifelong wish of living in a secluded paradise yet she feels closely connected to her. If i spoke to him and i was in india once and was suddenly surrounded by indians in their twentys who asked if they could hug me and thank me because i was part of their childhood but by your kintyre i hear the same thing in germany but i wondered how that was possible because life in india is so different to my books are definitely my influenced by the realities of life in germany or the United States and not in india and in countries where life is sometimes not that easy life and people still speak much more explicitly of all those existential questions of guilt of good and evil theres often a very profound understanding of literature its literature for them not Just Entertainment because for stanford to have towards life that is the top not want to get the weather fans are interested in dragon writers literary merits the movie offers plenty of action and humor you are probably tights. Was that my parents. Now before digital photography took over you may remember there was a thing called a slide show people use projectors to show travel photos to friends and family it was torture but if the words slide show still strike terror in your heart stick around for this artist voice work is a biological attack on the photographic slide. These were once totally average slides vacation snapshots Street Scenes relics of the age of analog photography then votes come down tough fish them out of the trash and set his bacteria to work. He also does that with icons of art history as slide photos of course. We caught up with gun tie it has been in studio downs where he turned slides into art once the bacteria have done their thing. So. Now puts you chose fun funny i thought it was really interesting that there was this classic heaven and hell situation room with adam uneven the tree of knowledge and the snake in the foreground is someone running away from some monsters from the house and now theyre running away from explosions and its lost any more and get in for the excuse one dickens will say you can start a kind of collaboration across the centuries of course the original artist no longer has any influence and ive been initiated it and the result is a totally new art work for me as it needs or and gets noise construct of ive always. Carefully places a drop of bacteria on a slide of an eye but i should do a mean thing now it is its all very professional. But at 1st his light experiments looked like this and go into kasia only got bacteria in his eyes and the smell in his bathroom was well challenging. It was never a problem for me but i have collectors who make sure not to visit my studio when they know im making cultures theyve tried it in the past and nearly tripped over themselves rushing back out again there can be a real stank conference to these days he works with Renowned Research labs in his search for the most a static strains of bacteria for his heart. Gunter usually uses harmless soil bacteria and even if he now works more precisely he still always surprised when the results emerge from his incubator. To shes a humvee and im inspired by Different Things and sometimes its a subject of the image sometimes its a static sometimes its just a reaction of wow ive never seen that before i would feel. As with this collaboration between butter cheli counter and bacteria they are just photographs of this venus in berlins committed to living. And this is what it looks like after various bacteria cultures have eaten their way through the emulsion. For his micro painting series he uses a microscope to photograph chemical processes and then creates huge wall sculptures a Common Thread in his work this is great love of experimentation shine but one can call its very appealing to control the apparently uncontrollable and be constantly surprised by reality and nature for having nature as a kind of collaborator is fantastic thought so harmless fantastic what can counter finds art is. Unusual places in his latest series for instance hes working with nose picking us but thats a story for another time. Indeed now over the past centuries berlins temple whove airfield has been a Parade Ground for the prussian military the entry points to hitlers capital a cold war u. S. Military base and now a unique public park with runways for the next week its also the stage for a very special theatrical experience a group called new is transforming a corner of the park into a womb an area labyrinth its called the course of the great journey. Any alien runway on tempelhof a faint or a constellation fallen from the sky neither its the stage for the latest production by berlins take out on the main role is played by the 3500. 00 candles that the audiences way through the dark night one by one their live it dusk even the tears artistic director lends a hand unbuttoned to it is the truth is this the you walk through this sea of life even and you encounter characters who tell stories from their lives. And you go from one to the next and on and on for the whole evening and at some point youre spat out from this world of the dolls just because of it. Some audience members spend hours in that world all the characters have somehow remain stuck in their stories. A woman looking for love in the near east. And one who wants to fly and never gives up theyre all trapped in the labyrinth like the audience itself they can take their time here remain in darkness and melt into the night. We build these mazes so theres a path to the center and usually there are also dead ends but now due to the coronavirus its a labyrinth. Where everyone goes their way without doubling back or getting in others way and finally getting lost in the labyrinth but finding yourself on an unreal night like this one anything is possible. Thats it for this edition of arts and culture for more culture news by daylight starlight or candlelight check out our website d w dot com slash culture we hope you have a very cultured rest of your week for me and all the crew here in berlin and thanks for watching. Into the conflict zone to suggest you. Can call it never leads to news for long these days now its the draft of a new security law to be imposed by beijing provoking controversy and protests joining me this week from long gone hes regina is a member of the citys Legislative Council and chair of the probating the new Peoples Party followed conflicts of. 30 minutes w. 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This is day w news and days are our top stories french president Emmanuel Mccall is calling for an independent probe into the cause of the explosion that leveled much of beirut on a visit to the lebanese capital michael and said victims and families were owed an investigation and pleaded for International Aid the blast on choose day killed more