other Nate Art

[FliegerAD]

Greetings team and fans of EB!

You may have been wondering what Nate (Caratacos) was doing during his break. The answer will delight you as much as me, I think. He was working for the Humboldt-University Berlin and the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the State Museums Berlin (part of the Prussian Heritage Foundation), donating artworks for an exhibition in the Pergamon Museum.

It has the Name "Zur Hölle. Eine Reise in die antike Unterwelt" (To Hell! Traveling ancient netherworld) - a name taken cum grano salis, but it also incoperates the ancient curse 'ad plutonem' (Corpus Inscriptionem Latinarum 13,4; Nr 11069).

A few pics of the opening:


This is the entrance to the room, where the exhibition takes place. As you can see, the exhibtion also takes space outside that room.


People gathering for the opening speeches


from another perspective


now entering


you may have noticed before, but here you can see one of Nate's artworks, which has received great praise - not only by younger visitors.


but naturally, the younglings were most attracted...


here you can see a central piece of the exhibtion, a map of the underworld, drawn by Nate. The projector obviously needs adjustment... anyway, each character on it is enlarged for a short time (here Hades and his wife), than reduced and another character is enlarged, and so on.
Also, a nice Hermes statue here.


it was quite well frequented at the opening, initially I tried to picture Nate's art on the left


here it finally worked (at 19:00)


'traditional' pieces of ancient art make the bulk of the exhibition, though. Nate's artworks help creating a guide through the exhibition.


again the entrace. The red paint marks the exhibition's objects and a few of them are outside the main room as seen here on the far left and right.


of course, there is a book for the exhibition, too. And again Nate contributed to it, while his services for EB and the EB project itseld are respectfully noted commended.
A fold out map and nine plates, all in full colour glory, can be found here.One example:


Impressive, isn't it? The exhibition can be visited until March 2nd.

regards!

[TWFanatic]

Impressive indeed! I'm planning a visit to Berlin soon, so I might just drop by.

[Geoffrey S]

Extremely impressive! Great to see Caratacos' skills put to even more good use.

[keravnos]

This is a match made in heaven.
EDIT... Those who can go there, just go. I wish I could.

[FliegerAD]

Impressive indeed! I'm planning a visit to Berlin soon, so I might just drop by.

cool, just a tip: the entrance most museums in Berlin is free every Thursday 18:00-22:00, that will save you some money...

[TWFanatic]

cool, just a tip: the entrance most museums in Berlin is free every Thursday 18:00-22:00, that will save you some money...

Lol thanks mate.

[Bonny]

cool, just a tip: the entrance most museums in Berlin is free every Thursday 18:00-22:00, that will save you some money...

Hi,

how long will this exhibiton stay?

Nate already informed us about this some time ago (but did not show any pics ). Since then i always pondered with the thought to visit this exhibition.
Well it s a bit far from ostwestfalia but hey i have never been to Berlin before and this is good excuse to finnally vistit the capital. If this is still open during the christmas holidays i maybe will visit it.

of course, there is a book for the exhibition, too. And again Nate contributed to it, while his services for EB and the EB project itseld are respectfully noted commended.

hell yeah

[FliegerAD]

Hi,

how long will this exhibiton stay?

Hi Bonny, it will stay until March 2 next year. So quite a lot of time. The Museum has opened during the hollydays, though of course not all the time during chrismas day etc.
If you have a fast car or when GDL is not on strike , it is not that a long way to Berlin :)
Although I have to admit there is much more to visit than just this small exhibition, Berlin has loads of interesting museums.