The sense of hearing [No.1]
2014-01-08
“Both of my parents are deaf, unbelievably elegant and extremely demanding. I studied art history, then taught art history to deaf children for a long while. I was surrounded by silence and developed a love for art and reading early on, feeding my own imaginary world with fantasies and romance. It was all very magical and strange.”
Robert Rabensteiner photographed by Pierpaolo Ferrari in the original coat of Balthus.
Besides the obvious fact that I am in love with the picture, I was amazed by his upbringing, too. He talks about it in the interview he gave for Dapper Dan Magazine [Issue04]. Both of his parents were deaf and that made me remember of the Budapest born dancer and choreographer Pál Frenák. Frenák's parents were also severely hearing and speech impaired, making sign language his first means of expression. Sign language and mimicry influenced his entire body of work.
To be continued...
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