Edwina Sandys "Breakthrough"
The Chelsea Art Museum
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The exhibition commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 with a 32 x 12 ft image of the sculpture "Breakthrough" (1990), a monumental historic work Edwina Sandys created from 8 Berlin Wall panels. The exhibition incorporates audio excerpts from Edwina Sandys’ grandfather Winston Churchill’s historic "Iron Curtain" speech, delivered in 1946 at the site where the “Breakthrough” sculpture stands, by the Churchill Memorial on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri; prints that present the history of the work, film documentary, “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall, Co-produced by John Michalczyk and Ronald Marsh, photographs curated by Bobbi Baker Burrows, LIFE Director of Photography, and music by American composer Julia Wolfe.
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from November 05, 2009 to December 05, 2009