Monday, 1 December 2014

Lecture 10: 24th November: Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer


  • Provocative
  • German Past
  • Process of art making
  • He is never static
  • Hyperactive possibly
  • Restless
  • spaces both indoor and out
  • South of france
  • Use of scale (incredibly important) 
  • Earth, light, organic
  • Questions life
  • Geological time - Timescales in which everything human as achievements is documented, as little more than a memory, preserved in the ground etc
  • Projection, layers of the self, constantly building.
  • Cycle, recycle, Bicycle
  • Texture, depth, tactile
Imagine: Anselm Kiefer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9N2NbSehE
Watch: Imagine: Anselm Kiefer

Behind the scenes: Bill Viola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmn-w2J68pU
Watch "Behind the scenes"

The great majority of Kiefer's works since his emergence in the late 1960s through the 1990s refer to subjects drawn from Germany and its culture: German history, myth, literature, art history, music, philosophy, topography, architecture, and folk customs, even going so far as to exploit clichés or commonplace icons.

Large scale paintings/abstract images push the boundaries of perception and overpower us with size and symbolism.

Many of his pieces dominate the peripheral vision.

Very suggestive of a theme or message


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