Circular II 22
GABRIEL
Marianische Antiphonen I – III
by Gabriel & Schindele
Opening: Friday the 8th of April 2022, 6 p.m.
Duration: 9th of April - 7th of May 2022
Location: NADAN, Meraner Str. 7 (Bayerischer Platz), 10825 Berlin
Dear friends,
it gives me great pleasure to invite you to the exhibition, opening on the 8th of April at NADAN at the Bayerischer Platz in Berlin.
JMH Schindele
Gabriel on his way from the Templar castle Convento de Cristo to the Marian pilgrimage site Fátima in Portugal. Photo: Stefan Hähnel (Marianische Antiphonen I – III)
Excerpt from the press release:
The wanderer Gabriel lives on the street - at first glance indistinguishable from homeless people who are defencelessly exposed to the world. "Pilgrimage is always also witnessing and my trace, laid on this map like the ephemeral breath of a string, is just that: Testimony and memory."
Gabriel's long-term performance WEG (approx. 2372 days) began on the 15th of September 2015 and continues to this day, taking him on the great pilgrimage routes of Santiago de Compostela, Rome, and Jerusalem - with only a tent, everything on his body, accompanied by four large black dogs.
The exhibition Marianische Antiphonen I – III focuses on a performance cycle that took place in and around the Marian pilgrimage site of Fátima in Portugal from the 5th of August to the 7th of August 2019. The documentary photographs of the performance, which like all of Gabriel's performances took place without announcement and in public space, are combined and presented in the exhibition with poetic texts, fragments, and conceptual works.
In the summer of 1917, in the central Portuguese town of Fátima, the mother goddess Mary is said to have appeared to three shepherd children a total of six times at an old holm oak. She entrusted them with a prophecy that went down in history as the Three Mysteries of Fátima. The title Marianische Antiphonen [Marian Antiphons] refers to the chants addressed to the mother of God (antiphons = alternating chants) in the Christian liturgy for more than 1.500 years. They also refer to the motif of ‘the Virgin of Mercy’, which inspired them from the beginning of the development of this series. Mary as a loving, warming, understanding, and protecting mother.
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GABRIEL is a tale and cosmos by performance artist Edwin W. Moes and art historian JMH Schindele. Since 2019 they have been operating as the artist duo Gabriel & Schindele. The main character of this story is called Gabriel and is embodied by Moes.
