The Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) created his installation “Absurd Berlin Diary ’64” in 1964 while on a grant from the US-based Ford Foundation. This funding enabled the artist to spend a year living and working in West Berlin. He produced the spatial object in the studio formerly used by Nazi sculptor Arno Breker, which now houses Kunsthaus Dahlem. It went on show later that year at documenta III in Kassel.
The installation, eight metres tall and one of Vedova’s major works, is unique in his oeuvre for its complexity and monumentality. In 2002 the artist donated the work to the Berlinische Galerie for its new home on Alte Jakobstrasse.
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Emilio Vedova, Absurd Berlin Diary ’64, 1964, Berlinische Galerie (donated by the artist in 2008), photo: Lutz Bertram, © Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova (JPG, 706 KB)
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