Sunday
28
APR

04:30 PM

Ausstellung „Envisioning Asia”: Vernissage

Programm:

Begrüßung
Dr. Margareta Pavaloi, Völkerkundemuseum VPST, Heidelberg und Robert Bitsch, Völkerkundemuseum VPST, Heidelberg

Aufbruch und Umbruch: Walter Bosshard als Augenzeuge
Dr. Peter Pfrunder, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (Schweiz)

Ikonographien der Macht: Die Kunst des Vergleichs
Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies


The exhibition "Envisioning Asia: Gandhi and Mao in the Photographs of Walter Bosshard" focuses on images from a critical decade in the life of two vast Asian countries, China and India. The Swiss photojournalist Walter Bosshard (1892–1975) visited both places in the 1930s and in the course of his travels, met with two transformational leaders, Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1947) and Mao Zedong (1893–1976), capturing with his camera intimate moments from the lives of these men and their movements. The exhibition offers a tantalizing overview of some of his camera work, alongside a rare silent film on Mao, also shot by Bosshard. By juxtaposing Gandhi and Mao, India and China, and bringing them into an inter-visual dialogue, it also serves as a paradigmatic example of the art of comparison through images and, specifically, photographs.

Address

Völkerkundemuseum VPST

Hauptstraße 235

69117 Heidelberg

Homepage Event

http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsevents/events/exhibition-envisioning-asia.html

Organizer

Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS); Völkerkundemuseum VPST