December 13, 2008. “The Whispering Walls: Trompe l’Oeil and Сalligraphy”. Master class by Andrea Wunderlich and Volker Thomas Wunderlich

Sometimes the walls not only listen, but speak. But when they do, they whisper, and most people cannot hear them. The Wunderlichs, however, did the impossible: they conjured the walls to put their delicate whispered words into visitors’ ears. Their master-class was one of the most remarkable shows at the exhibition. You could watch the two German artists gradually adorning a wall with images and inscriptions all day long.

A calligraphic fresco, named “E pluribus – unum” (Out of many, one) was emerging from non-existence as the astonished audience watched the masters’ every move. Upon completion of the fresco, the Wunderlich couple gave a lecture on their freshly created chef-d’oeuvre, which they called “The Whispering Walls: trompe l’oeil and calligraphy”. There is little a true artist cannot express. The most trivial object can be transformed into a prominent feature. Thinking out of the calligraphic box, using a lively image of a fireplace designating an “O” on the wall, for example, the Wunderlichs proved once again that calligraphy is not all about indecipherable curly scribbles from ancient manuscripts. Rather calligraphy is a full-scale branch of contemporary art, capable of winning people’s attention. And thus the wall spake…

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