MANHATTAN, N.Y.

First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin
Leonard Cohen

Manhattan, N.Y., je velik umetniški projekt, ki povezuje 12 znanih slovenskih umetnikov in ustvarjalcev: Miha Boljka, Jakov Brdar, Romi Bukovec, Dalaj Eegol, Klementina Golija, Marjeta Grošelj, Vida Klenovšek, Leonard Rubins, Miranda Rumina, Huberto Široka, Klavdij Tutta, Petra Varl. Vsak od njih je za projekt odstopil 19 slik iz svojega umetniškega opusa. Te slike so reproducirane na kamnite bloke - nebotičnike in velike zgradbe - ki skupaj z objekti iz brona in voska ustvarijo fantazijski Manhattan.

Razstava je drugi del velikega projekta, ki smo ga svečano otvorili 25. 5. 2005 ob 19.30 v Izoli na dveh točkah - v Galeriji Kerubin in Internetni kavarni KT1 - ki sta povezani tudi z napisi ulic Manhattana na Ljubljanski ulici. Poetiko projekta smo povzeli po besedilu pesmi Leonarda Cohena First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin. Na multimediji s tremi velikimi projekcijami bo predstavljena obširna videoprodukcija z umetniškim opusom sodelujočih.

Razstava se bo po zaključeni ljubljanski instalaciji, kjer posnamemo videospot na glasbo Dalaj Eegola Blue Funk, predstavljena septembra v New Yorku. Umetniki bodo s svojimi stvaritvami predstavljeni tudi v dvojezični knjigi in na DVD-ju.
Projekt so do sedaj podprli JSKD, Občina Izola, Marmor Hotavlje, Svečarstvo Pax, Kamnoseštvo Granit, Emona Obala Koper, Elizabeth Arden, Termopol, Syncerus.

Razstava bo odprta do 19. 7. 2005 vsak dan razen nedelje.

Huberto Široka

Leonard Cohen: FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN
(album I'M YOUR MAN)

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those items that you sent me
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ready
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah, remember me, I used to live for music
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin