thesaurós artists

06
Apr
2020
Invitation to the virtual Good Friday Concert by Elshan Ghasimi

Invitation to the virtual Good Friday Concert by Elshan Ghasimi

Bublitz. Thesaurós. Uhlandstraße.
Program 2020

Invitation to the virtual Good Friday Concert
by Elshan Ghasimi

10th April 2020 at 7 pm in your living room

Dear culture enthusiasts,

Outdoors, forsythia and magnolias are in bloom, birds are twittering and collecting branches for nest-building.

Indoors are individuals, longing for company. Contact is only possible from a distance. Challenging times for us all!

Photo © Arnaud Ele

Photo © Arnaud Ele

The children of men are all brothers and sisters
Of one material like a body’s limbs
Should disease affect a single limb
Others are left with neither peace nor rest.

This verse comes from the famous Persian poet Saadi (1210-1291 A.D.), and has inspired the musician and composer Elshan Ghasimi to express her solidarity at this particular time. She invites you - virtually, of course - to a half-hour concert on Good Friday, 10th April 2020 at 7 pm. This performance will take place at the exhibition Tempel auf Zeit in Thesaurós. Uhlandstraße.

Press this link to tune in:

https://youtu.be/xHVy245IQpw

Sit back and be touched by Ghasimi's interpretations of Persian classical music.

You can, however, listen to Elshan Ghasimi’s masterful playing of her chosen instrument, the tar, beforehand. Inspired by se-lected personal objects, she musically interpreted the biog-raphy of the mathematician and mystic El Arbi Bouqdib in her concert, Ein Garten singender Dinge. A recording of this 2018 concert at the Bremen church “Friedensgemeinde” can be heard by clicking on the photo below.

Elshan Ghasimi
Photo © Frank Jacobsen

Photo © Frank Jacobsen

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07
Feb
2020
Invitation – Exhibition ‘Tempel auf Zeit’

Invitation – Exhibition ‘Tempel auf Zeit’

Mυθοποίηση
Tempel auf Zeit

16th February 2020
4pm
Thesaurós. Berlin

 

 

7th February 2020

Dear friends,

The new Thesaurós Room in Berlin will open its doors with the exhibition Tempel auf Zeit (temporary temple / temple on time) on Sunday 16 February at four o'clock. Come in large numbers and bring friends!

 

Passages from the text of the exhibition by JMH Schindele:

II

The search for merging horizons

Tempel auf Zeit is the beginning of a series of about ten episodes of art exhibitions that are complemented by essayistic, poeticising and commenting means.

This temple is concerned with the interplay of myth and poetry. As a life-shaping force and ground plan of human existence, this interplay is at the centre of an organic programme of conversations and birthday celebrations and comes across us in ten works of art.

These are from:

El Arbi Bouqdib ARCHIVE, arranged and romanticised by Elshan Ghasimi, Michal Martychowiec and JMH Schindele.

GABRIEL, in collaboration with Stefan Hähnel, Laura Fociños Mantecón and JMH Schindele.

Elshan Ghasimi with Friedrich Andreoni.

Hilarion Manero.

Michal Martychowiec.

GABRIEL Der Soldat der keinen Krieg führen sollte

GABRIEL interpreted by Stefan Hähnel. Der Soldat der keinen Krieg führen wollte
(The soldier who doesn't fight a war to lead)

“... like the map of Europe and the Fertile Crescent. On it we see the trace of the slowly becoming endeavour
and artistic work of the wandering hermit Edwin William Moes and his figure GABRIEL. ”

1-4 | Rosicrucian Ephemeris 1900-2000: At Midnight, 0 Hour Tdt | April 1947 – May 1947 (1984)

1-4 Rosicrucian Ephemeris 1900-2000 at Midnight | April 1947 – May 1947 (1984).
An object from the El Arbi Bouqdib ARCHIVE.

“… an object from the estate of the Arab biochemist and mystic El Arbi Bouqdib in a display case.
Rosicrucian Ephemeris 1900-2000, a book, the star constellations of the past century,
opened on the supposed month of Bouqdib's birth: April 1947.

The composer and Tar virtuoso Elshan Ghasimi has musically arranged it in 2018.
But what is it, to which sphere does it belong?“

Michal Martychowiec - What remains the poets provide

The work What remains the poets provide by Michal Martychowiec
is one of the key works in the exhibition.

OPENING HOURS & ADDRESS

Opening Reception: 16th February 2020, 4:00 p.m.

Opening times: Tuesday & Saturday 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm.

Personal viewings and group visits for up to five people by appointment. Admission & guided tour free of charge.

BUBLITZ. THESAURÓS. UHLANDSTRAßE.
Uhlandstraße 147
10719 Berlin

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20
Dec
2019

New Music for the old Ceremony

Elshan Ghasimi - Elies Miniatures I & II

 

 

Dear friends,

In the summer of last year, Elshan Ghasimi, Michal Martychowiec and JMH Schindele began following the footsteps of the mathematician, biochemist, mystic and poet El Arbi Bouqdib, who died in 2016. With the help of the family, and in particular his youngest son and estate administrator Joseph Bouqdib the El Arbi Bouqdib Archive was founded.

The purpose of this archive is to trace the life of this extraordinary free spirit, based on the approximately 20,000 documents and items left behind, to construct a poetic work of remembrance.

Initial archival-artistic work has brought the first treasures to light. The virtuoso and composer Elshan Ghasimi gained inspiration from individual objects and has written music and songs based on them. We are happy to announce the publication of two live albums Elies Miniatures I – Ein Garten singender Dinge and EM II – Archivblumen, for which purpose the music label Bublitz Music was recently founded. In the future, Bublitz Music will also focus on the other classical musics – an evocative term invoked by the British musicologist and critic Michael Church.

EG - Elies Miniatures performance

A short passage from the press release:

“What does a magnetic field generator sound like? What does the last cigarette lighter say? Whose hands are there, coming towards us, and what is the secret behind the star chart?

Elshan Ghasimi’s concept album Elies Miniatures I – Ein Garten singender Dinge combines classical Persian music with the demands of contemporary conceptual art and the processing of an archive.

With the utmost sensitivity in musical expression, the world-class soloist leads us into a new musical universe on the tar. As a composer, she interlaces different modal scales of the Radīf*, combines them with influences and elements of minimal music and interweaves poetry by Omar Chayyām, Hossein Gol-e-Golab, Hatef Esfahani and her own texts. On this album, Ghasimi appears in various roles as composer, soloist, singer and reciter.”

As album, concert and exhibition cycle, Elies Miniatures is an ongoing narrative as well as a novel form of merging music, concert, visual art, exhibition and biographical narration. If you are interested in deeper diving into the conceptual and artistic framework of this collaborative work of Elshan Ghasimi, Michal Martychowiec and JHM Schindele visit the cycle's website.

Read more.

 

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You can find the albums on all major streaming platforms.
A limited edition on vinyl is being prepared for production.

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