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Mehdi Chouakri Gallery dedicates its current exhibition "Nature Morte”—at Mommsenstrasse and Fasanenplatz respectively—to one of art history’s classic themes: the still life.
By definition, the term still life (Dutch: stilleven, French: nature morte = dead nature, Italian: natura morta) refers to the representation of inanimate or immobile objects that appear in accordance with formalistic and aesthetic aspects. Frequently this involves a merging of object symbolism with the symbolic world of artistic creation, indicating fame’s impermanence and the constricted pursuit of longevity …