{"id":703,"date":"2015-11-06T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=703\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T09:41:50","slug":"theme-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/waldach.com\/en\/portfolio\/theme-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Animation, Balance, Infinity” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23a8193f” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The novel by Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris, includes in its title the year 1482.
\nIt is a historical novel, which, published in 1831, brings to life a world of the past, the Middle Ages, as a panorama of words.
\nThis work does not address an imagined archaeology, but rather eternally virulent themes such as love, passion, isolation, belief, power, state, church, and the highly topical issue of (church) asylum.
\nANATKH or Anank\u00e9 \u00a0\u2013 meaning doom or destiny \u2013 unites the figures in Hugo\u2019s novel and people in general with time and history.
\nThe Notre Dame de Paris cathedral is at the heart of Victor Hugo\u2019s eponymous work. It is not only the setting but also the sum of all the novel\u2019s characters: for the first time in literary history a building is the protagonist. In the drawings \u201cAnimation,\u201d \u201cBalance,\u201d and \u201cInfinity\u201d this place is filled with enigmatic life that becomes visible in clouds of textual citations that float through the architecture.
\nViktor Hugo wanted to create an \u201cideal\u201d novel that was \u201cboth drama and epic\u201d. The structure of this epic work \u2013 in addition to the content \u00a0\u2013 can be understood as a drama that follows a well-considered design principle.
\nElements of disappearance and fragmentation re-appear in words and loosen the bond of great architecture from purely religious functions. The cathedral is transformed into a virtual object of art, culture, and contemporary history of the past to the present.<\/p>\n

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\n195 \u00d7 280 cm[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Years appear in red from the depths of the \u201chistorical space\u201d and in the diptych structure the cathedral interior, going back from the present (2015)<\/strong> to the laying of the cornerstone of the church (1163)<\/strong>:
\nThe citations in the text clouds here refer mainly to the description of the cathedral as an architecture that \u201clives and breathes\u201d.
\nThe real symbolism of the colors of the cathedral\u2019s stained glass windows is absorbed by the text in the picture and re-emerges from the same. Each color develops its own range of meaning, from existential to spiritual.
\nRed<\/strong> stands for life, symbolizes love, but is also the color of the devil.
\nYellow<\/strong> is the color of sunlight and thus also a symbol of heaven.
\nBlue<\/strong> stands for transparency and clarity of thought.
\nIn the battle against evil, white and blue unite (light blue)<\/strong>.
\nViolet<\/strong> is a blend of red and blue and stands for prudence and the high feasts. During the Middle Ages the robe of Jesus in his Passion was depicted in violet.
\nGreen<\/strong> is the color of spring. It represents new life and hope, but can also be the color of the devil, who stands between the red of Hell and the blue of Heaven.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]\t
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\n195 \u00d7 280 cm[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\u2026To animate the stones of Notre Dame.
\nAnatkh \u2013 doom.<\/strong> For Victor Hugo the story of his main characters ends tragically. The gypsy Esmeralda is executed, and the hunchback Quasimodo recognizes the guilt of his master Claude Frollo at this execution and pushes him from the tower gallery into the depths.
\nFrollo at this point is no longer the chaste and devout churchman. In his wish to transcend the limits of religious knowledge he turns to alchemy. This thirst for knowledge not only alienates him from the church, but also causes him to falter in his moral convictions. He falls like the figure from the Gallery of Kings in the picture \u2013 the conflict between religion and life remains.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″]\t
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\n\t\t\t\"\"\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text el_class=”thema-attributes”]Infinity<\/a>, 2015
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\n195 \u00d7 140 c[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The Gothic cross vault is transcended and reveals a view of an imaginary night sky. The constellation includes pentagrams that divide the view into infinity.
\nThe pentagram is probably the most recognized symbol of magic and mysticism. It represents the four elements \u2013 fire, water, air, and earth \u2013 surmounted by the spirit. Inverted, the symbol becomes a \u201cdrude\u2019s foot,\u201d a sign of evil, and the points become the horns of a devil\u2019s mask.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”100px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″]\t
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