Frankfurt, Germany.

Bill Viola, a major exhibition at the: Schirn Kunsthalle, Museum fur Modern Kunst, The Church of the Holly Ghost in the Dominican Cloister and at the German Stock exchange, from February 5, 1999.

Hans Hollein's M für MK, as painted by Claes Oldenburg, 1994, " Museum a la mode ", ( the shape of a piece of cake ).

Bill Viola, born in NY, 1951, one of the most important contemporary artists to use the medium of video from 1970, he is concerned with the different ways we perceive the visible world and the relation of human beings to nature, culture and civilization.

" The crossing ", 1996, detail, Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.

The most impressive work is the " Nantes Triptych ", at the Church of the Holly Ghost in the Dominican cloister:

The Nantes Triptych, video / sound installation, 1992.

A huge triptych, I think 10 meters long, placed at the holly of hollies, the Apse of the Cloister, it shows a woman gives birth, a vision, sometimes abstract of a person plunges in and out of the water and an old person at the moment he / she returns his / her soul to the Creator.

The climax is the moment of death and the moment of birth, the baby fells to sleep, exhausted, his face with signs of the labor but with a calm expression, he looks similar to the dead person that also has a calm expression on his face, the one completed his task in the world and the other is ready for his.

Nobuyashi Araki, at the Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, from February, 5, 1999.

Araki, was born in 1940 in Miniwa, Japan, lives in Tokyo, photographing city life day and night, is for him like a constant flow of inhaling and exhaling air, the very fabric of life.

Photograph from " Tokyo Comedy series ", 1997, ( the woman was tided with a rope, the signs are clearly visible ).

Araki's photos shows the nakedness of his city with tenderness and lust, the sex of the city of Tokyo, Araki is a cult figure in Tokyo with popularity of a pop star, Araki describes a kind of tightrope act between Eros and Tantalus, he terms eroticism one of the many aspects of his " description of the soul " and relies during the act of photographing completely on his instinct and intuition. His work paints, like no other artistic form of expression, a picture of contemporary Japanese society and urban life in Tokyo. ( This is an exert, part of the Museum publication, written by Mario Kramer ).

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