"K” Tribute to Franz Kafka

With the reopening of the Fondazione Prada located in Largo Isarco 2, its temporary exhibitions also reopened and one of them is “K”, an exhibition dedicated to the Bohemian novelist Frantz Kafa, which by the way got extended until October 2020.

Curated by Udo Kittelmann, the project refers to three unfished works by the novelist, which are:

Amerika (America), Der Prozess (The Trial) and Das Schloss (The Castle) all published between 1925 and 1927. These works especially known to be the fullest of what Italians call a “situazione kafkiana” (in English a “Kafkian situation”), which essentialy referres to those paradoxal situations which generally create anxiety in the reader.

“K” is made by three main elements, which are all connected to each other: the work by Germsn artist Martin Kippenberger “The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s “Amerika”, the film by Orson Welles “The trial” and the electronic music by Tengerine Dream’s album, “The Castle”.

The first work displayed in the ground floor of the podium, is the one by Martin Kippenberger, which explores the concept of utopia, based on the novel America the artist The artist translates this literary image into a complex installation.

Then we have the work by Orson Welles and it is his film The Trial (1962), inspired by Kafka’s novel of the same name, this is screened at the Cinema. Welles’ The Trial is characterised by an unconventional black humour towards unhappy daily life situations

At the end there is the part about music, where in the Cisterna the album by Tangeline Dreams will be played, in which visitors will be able to hang out and relax while listening to the electronic tunes of “The Castle”, the albums is 10 tracks long.

The tree part exhibition can be both perceived as a tryptic, but also as one work of art made of three layers, the first layer being the 3D physical one, the second one being the 2D visual one and the third one being the sensorial one.

Manami