Artist Ingo Bracke stands in the courtyard of Johannisburg castle in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, some 50 kms (30 mls) east of Frankfurt, April 3. He did a light installation here on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Renaissance castle.
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Colorful Castle
Spectators stand in the courtyard of Schloss Johannisburg castle in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, some 50 kms (30 mls) east of Frankfurt, April 3, while the 400 year-old walls of the Renaissance building are colorfully illuminated by light artist Ingo Bracke.
Lágrimas de São Pedro
Old lightbulbs filled with water hang from the ceiling of a building at Frankfurt’s Palmengarten botanical garden, March 31, as part of the annual Luminale light festival. The installation by Vinicius Silva de Almeida of Brazil is named ‘Lágrimas de São Pedro’ (The Tears of Saint Peter).
Turning Water into Light
A visitor aims his little water pistol at an installation named ‘Splashlights’, one of the many objects on display throughout the city during the annual ‘Luminale’ light festival in Frankfurt, March 30. ‘Splashlights’, created by students of the Ilmenau (Germany) university, consists of some 20.000 LEDs that are switched on upon contact with water.
Monsters
A man walks past a wall full of laughing or grinning graffiti monsters at Frankfurt’s Bornheim district, Jan. 20. Artists are ‘Spot’ and Il-Jin Choi.
Redeye
A part of a wall painting at Maybach bridge in the north of Frankfurt, Nov. 21. I’d say the red eyes were added later.
To Be OK
A man standing on a stage during a press conference at a museum in Frankfurt, Oct.29, with the letters OK from a projection on his head. They are actually the first two letters of the word ‘Oktober’ which is German for (surprise!) October. The press conference marked the beginning of a video art festival in the city with dozens of presentations, exhibitions, workshops and discussions.
Old African Sculpture
A terracotta head that was created between 800 and 400 BC is exhibited in front of a Roman replica of a Greek sculpture (200 BC) at an exhibition of African Nok sculpture at the Liebieghaus museum in Frankfurt, Oct.29. When Egypt, Greece and Rome blossomed during the 2nd and 1st millenium BC the Nok culture (1500 to 0 BC) existed in West Africa in what is now Nigeria.
Sunset through a Piece of Art
Sunset at the Staedel art museum in Frankfurt, Oct. 23, seen through an acrylic glass lens which is part of a work by late German artist Adolf Luther.
Umbrageous
A man and his dog walk over a piece of street-art by Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione at Frankfurt’s central Hauptwache square, Sep.13.
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