/ world today news/ For the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the artist Yadegar Azizi presented a unique exhibition: the panorama depicts Berlin in the mid-1980s – West and East. According to Euronews, the artist noted that his main goal was to depict the burden of everyday life and the overwhelming circumstances that people in the divided city were forced to adapt to.
During the years of the division of Germany, the border between the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany crossed here, there were towers and tensioned barbed wire. In November, it will be 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. For many years it was the personification of the Cold War, a symbol of confrontation and enmity. Today, Germans do not like to remember that difficult time when their country was divided. However, the artist Yadegar Azizi believes that historical memory is a duty of contemporaries to future generations.
For the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, he presented a unique exhibition. It is located near the famous checkpoint “Checkpoint Charlie” on Friedrichstrasse. We are talking about a panorama with a width of 60 meters and a height of 15 meters, which depicts Berlin in the mid-1980s – West and East.
Azizi’s panorama is a purely personal view of the artist. He himself lived for many years in the Kreuzberg area in close proximity to the Berlin Wall.
YADEGAR AWITHTrace: For us, the wall was part of everyday reality. That was normal. We went to restaurants by the wall, we had fun. And I often think about that normality. I had a friend who lived next to the wall. I remember we visited him once, we had coffee. I looked out the window at the wall, then turned around and we immediately started talking about ordinary things. To us, it appears that the wall does not existwhat about
As Azizi notes, his main aim was to depict the burden of everyday life and the insurmountable circumstances that people were forced to adapt to in the divided city during the Cold War for nearly 30 years.
Translation: M.Zhelyazkova
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