“Kandinsky’s Galaxy” appears at Strange Horizons
Mike Allen / Monday, April 9th, 2012 / 1 Comment »
“Kandinsky’s Galaxy,” the latest and for now last of the poems in my Disturbing Muses series, has just appeared in the new issue of Strange Horizons. You can read it here.
I owe Strange Horizons Poetry Editor Sonya Taaffe for the existence of both this one and its recent predecessor “Carrington’s Ferry” — both for buying the poems, and for inspiring me to write them to begin with; in the case of Carrington’s, by direct request, and in the case of Kandinsky’s, through sheer enthusiasm. Sonya has long been a champion of this sequence … since even before the original Disturbing Muses collection came out in ’05. (Heck, she had a big hand in that existing, too.) Thank you, milady!
“Kandinsky’s Galaxy” is directly inspired by a 2009 visit to the Guggenheim in Manhattan, wherein I walked up the spiral through the truly jaw-dropping exhibition of the Russian master’s paintings from the beginning to the end of his life. It took me a long time, though (plus some encouragement from Sonya) to express what that experience planted in my head in a manner I was satisfied with.
Kandinsky’s compositions have always fascinated me, in particular his works of the Bauhaus period. I have often asked me about the cultural background behind these images. The reading of this book, now in Kindle format, has clarified me a lot of things. I would recommend it to the people who are interested in Kandinsky’s theoretical inspiration. Unfortunately, the title is only available in Spanish. Antonio Pérez Carballo
“Kandinsky: los fundamentos del arte abstracto y su relación con las ciencias experimentales”. Luis López García, E-book, Amazon