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Jacques Naoum

Athens 6.10.2015

Dear Weekend gallery,

I learned from Viktoria that Jacques has passed away.

Jacques was an old friend. We got to know each other while I was teaching dialectic of securalization at the Institut for Science of Religion of the Free University of Berlin, while he was studying at the faculty for Islam and which shared with us the same building. That was 1977-80.

The last time we met was when I introduced the painter Jad Salman from Palestine and living/ studying in Paris. There developed out of this meeting both a friendship and an exhibition, see http://poieinkaiprattein.org/beyond-images/art-and-artists/jad-salman/reflections-of-jad-s-exhibition-at-weekend-gallery---hatto-fischer/ or Reflections of Jad's exhibition at Weekend Gallery - Hatto Fischer

The WEEKEND Gallery (http://poieinkaiprattein.org/beyond-images/art-scene-in-berlin-2011---2012/weekend-gallery/) was thanks to Jacques a unique combination of being on the periphery but at the same time so crucial for the articulation of artists who wanted to link up with not only aesthetical but also historical and social-political reflections. Jacques was a master at improvisation while he kept writing articles about the Middle East. Coming from Lebanon, he was more at home in the French than in the German language yet he had the eloquence of writing in perfect German his deeply humane thoughts. He was a keen observer of political developments and thus a kind of diplomat using artistic means not as a side show but as another kind of reflection. This is why he embraced the idea of exhibiting Jad Salman who continues to evolve imaginaries around the theme 'madness of humanity'.

hatto

 


In memory of Jacques Naoum

You wrote a lot about the silence

in religious languages of the Middle East,

but in the SchlossStraße you heard as well

the rushing of the wind through Castanian trees,

you heard as well people moving steadily chairs

when another exhibition took place in the Weekend gallery,

you saw how a shadow climbed up the wall

just because your eyes looked far beyond the city

to find out where thinking begins to write in dust

- now remains only the dancing tea pot for the tea

you made to warm yourself and your body

knowing full well that the sun was the caring mother

of your dreams who now like prisoners in the cellar

rattle on chains waiting for their emancipation

only possible once they hear your voice

devoted for eternity to give to humanity.

 

In Erinnerung an Jacques Naoum

Schriebst Du doch so viel vom Schweigen

in den Sprachen der Religionen im Orient,

aber in der Schlossstraße hörtest Du außerdem

das Sausen des Windes in den Kastanienbäumen,

hörtest Du stets wie die Menschen die Stühle rückten

wenn in der Weekend Galerie eine Ausstellung statt fand,

sahst Du wie der Schatten der Wand empor kletterte,

eben weil Deine Augen weit über die Stadt hinaussahen,

um auszumachen wo im Staub das Denken zu schreiben beginnt

- übrig bleibt der tanzende Teekessel für den Tee

mit dem Du Deinen Körper erwärmtest,

wohl wissend das starke Sonnenlicht war die Ziehmutter

Deiner Träume die jetzt wie Gefangene im Keller

an den Ketten ratteln, wartend auf die Befreiung

die erst kommen wird wenn sie Deine Stimme

in der Ewigkeit Deiner Hingabe wieder hören.

 

hatto fischer

Athen den 5.10.2015

Die Nachricht

Am 05.10.2015 22:07, schrieb Viktoria Müller:

...am 17.09.15 habe ich Jacques noch in Berlin besucht...

...in tiefer Trauer, Viktoria...

Viktoria R. Müller
http://viktoria-r-mueller.wix.com/art22

 

Gesendet: Freitag, 02. Oktober 2015 um 10:07 Uhr
Von: Weekendgallery <Post@weekendgallery.de>
An: Post@weekendgallery.de
Betreff: Unerwarteter Trauerfall

Liebe Freundinnen, liebe Freunde der Weekend Gallery,

am Freitag, den 25.9.2015 verstarb Jaques Naoum.

Die Beisetzung findet am 8.Oktober statt, im orthodoxen Friedhof in Tegel Wittestraße 37 um 12 Uhr.

Für evtl. Rückfragen ist Gisela Schubert telefonisch unter 

01632634299 
oder
per Email unter giselameier-schubert@freenet.de
zu erreichen.

das Weekendteam
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WEEKEND GALLERY
 Schloßstraße 62
 14059 Berlin

 ... am Schloß Charlottenburg

 Tel. + Fax : 030 / 34 10 482

www.weekendgallery.de

 

In memory of Jacques Naoum

Paris 10.Nov 2015

Dear all, 

Feeling like its hard to breath once again! When you lose another light in a dark night; and its dark nights, we need much more lights.

.. What words could describe the dark nights in the Middle East after a start of a Spring that was watered down with the human blood... just to crash all the young / new hope for a better future for all and not just for the King/ President/ First minister and his men around him. The big money, drugs, wars... and other money machines... we lose more and more lights... what dark nights! 

I wrote this to share it with you, because this was a part of our talks (with Jacque) back in 2012 when I made the exhibition in Berlin at the Weekend gallery. Jacque who came to Berlin from Lebanon, with the war there.. before and now, now and then… here or there.. till when? 

I still remember that evening in 2011 at the beginning of the cold November in Berline, when I went with Hatto to visit Jacque in his gallery, and where I met him for the first time, a gallery and man with all the memories around since 1982...and his friendship with Hatto and the cultural scene in Berlin then and after, when the wall went down in 1989.

I had a special week in Berlin when we went to the Weekend gallery to pay a first visit, and when I went there one year later to do my exhibition in 2012.

We hope that Peace could be possible for everybody, everywhere, and that the future shall be possible for others who come after us to live in this world in Peace! Not just to watch everything constructed turned into dust! and that the Wild Beasts will be stopped form eating everything that his eyes could see! is that possible?

Lost is another man, another light towards freedom and liberty of thinking and believing. I will remember all the fun and the special sprit Jacques had given. Jacques, you will be always remembered for the rules you make and break with your gallery as well - The Weekend gallery 

Rest in Peace dear Jacque. God bless your soul.

Peace and love,

Jad

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/where-wild-things-are

https://www.facebook.com/JadSalmanArtworks

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Jad Salman
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www.jadsalman.com

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