Visual artist Martin Kippenberger, film director Orson Welles, and electronic music band Tangerine Dream, felt inspired by the unfinished nature of those Franz Kafka books and so they decided to intervene and reinterpret the subjects and atmospheres found in the novel. The curator Udo Kittelmann decided to present the three artworks as a coexisting trilogy by starting from Kafka’s three uncompleted novels Amerika (America), Der Prozess (The Process), and Das Schloss (The Castle), published from 1925 to 1927, as it was mentioned, after the writer’s death. The Trial (1962), directed by Orson Welles. The show will feature Martin Kippenberger’s legendary installation The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s Amerika, Orson Welles’ iconic film The Trial and late electronic album The Castle by the pioneering electronic music band Tangerine Dream.Īnthony Perkins. Through his works, Kafka explored the themes of guilt, anxiety, and alienation, and his style became such a landmark that the word Kafkaesque was formed and introduced in the English language to describe hopeless states like those found in his writings.įranz Kafka's books certainly inspired generations to come, not only of writers but practitioners coming from other art disciplines as well, and this phenomenon will be further explored within the upcoming exhibition called K at Fondazione Prada in Milan. The style of this notable figure is a combination of realism and the absurd since his protagonists are tormented by surrealistic situations. The full scope of his literary style was encountered posthumously thanks to his friend and literary executor Max Brod who sorted the unfinished writings including the best-known ones such as The Process, The Castle and The Man Who Disappeared. Franz Kafka is unmistakably one of the most important writers of the 20th century, and yet he was unrecognized throughout his lifetime.
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