Art
Richard Pound
Anselm Kiefer, Facilities View Tell me where the flowers are 2024 “Anselm Kiefer – Sag Mir Wo Blumen Sind’s”, Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum, 2025. Peter Tijhuis photo. The courtesy of the Stedelijk Museum, artist and white cube.
The key image of the post-war cultural landscape is one of the most important artists in the world Anselm Kiefer. Monumental painting, sculpture and installation, along with printing and watercolors, examines the issues of the Myth, Collective Memory, History, and Spirituality. Unfollycing and Akerbiko was a first German artist aimed at the fear of Nazi season and Holocaust. His extraordinary work builds the bridge between the past, present and the future, as it was created as now.
Often a monumental scale, its rich output is literature, philosophy, kabbalah and alchemy. It is not known for his dark paintings, covered with a thick impasto, often chosen materials, containing materials like straw, ash, clay, lead and broken glass. Here, Kiefer mixes elements of neo -easionism and symbolism to create complex meditation, death and cosmos and complex multitations.
This spring, two important exhibitions stand out for its sustainable importance. “Tell me where the flowers are,” Amsterdam’s Stedelijk and Van Gogh Museums are presented to present an important retrospective, looking at the impact of Vincent van Gogh Kiefer. Meanwhile, “Anselm Kiefer: England, in England, examines the roots of the artist, at the beginning of his career at the beginning of 45 works, covering the period 1969-82. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Fergus McCaffrey will show new paintings and sculpture Artists in Japan Castle Kyoto Japan.
To match these significant shows, the artetics highlights five contemporary artists who share something in Kiefer’s DNA.
B. 1965, Anyang, China. He lives and works in Shanghai and New York.
The Chinese artist Zhang Huan includes long careers and celebrations of painting, sculpture, photography, printing and performance. The artist often refers to Kiefers as a influence, in his work, he witnessed his wonderful history of his homeland in his work, addressing issues similar to collective memory, identity, spirituality and transgression.
Extraordinary series of his ash paintings, such as representing cultural revolution Large leap forward (2007), they are particularly important in this context. Using the ashes of the temples, its thick gray impasto, organic materiality, wide historical sweeps and deep spiritual resonance, with deep parallels with Kiefer’s work.
Its monumental Sydney Buddha (2015) – Two Buddhas in the four-meter high-end facility ever created in Australia. It was a mental metal statue, with a sculpture made up of 20 tonnes of ashes, for its exhibition, its latest meditation forever, to form its latest meditation about transience and the severity of life.
B. 1978, Birmingham, England. He lives and works in London.
Idris Khan’s diverse Ouvre, sculpture, painting, video, and photo, a large part of Kiefer’s work in relation to the contempt of time and memory. Like Kiefer, Khan inspires from literary and historical sources, from Beethoven’s scores to the Qur’an pages.
Khan’s large-scale c-prints, for example The world of perception (2010), use digital technology to multiple photos of certain texts or images to maintain the spectacular remains of the existing layer below each consecutive layer. The printing obtained distillates many images in a blurred and distiled palimpsest, falling time and memory in a single moment. Similar ideas are given three-dimensional forms in his deep work My mother (2019) Sculpture created from all the survivors made by his mother in his life.
Khan has been responsible for creating some important public sculptures, including Wahat Al Karama’s Memorial War I at Abu Dhabi, which form metal panels like dominoes.
B. 1987, Jacksonville, North Carolina. He lives and works in Hudson in New York.
Reginald Sylvester II creates paintings that draw sculpture and sculptures that draw paint. Using a variety of materials, rubber, tarpaulin, sticks and chains to oxidized and skated metals, his work achieves a high quality quality of Kiefer’s echo. Exposed to the abstract and minimalism of the twentieth century, with its monumental sculptures and large-scale paintings have an imposible presence, spirituality, nuclear dy dyholism, authoritarianism and trauma of the villages of slavery.
His painting Bondage III (2020) It is made up of a variety of brave brushes and gestures, reminiscent of brown, yellow, and red, ethnically a variety of communities. But the canvas is surrounded by an intricate and intertwined rope, proposing a constant tension between freedom and oppression. Meanwhile, his work Offering IX (2020) uses a rubber canvas, stretched over a wooden medium and zipped with red blood painting layers to refer to historical antrocities in the Belgian Congo plantings.
B. 1967, Warsaw. He lives and works in London.
Taking a interdisciplinary approach that combines sculpture and robotics, Goshka Macuga creates facilities in areas that weave complex narratives about history, politics and other problems of our time. Like Kiefer, he draws past cultural references, which browses archives and crawls the collections. It often includes other artists and especially selected objects in its exhibitions.
His show “broke” (2010-11), for example, studied Macugak Walker Arts Center to the destruction of American Industry Americans. Walker Family’s wood company archives photographs of the archives of the Museum collection and the surrounding forest, destruction was alive.
In Tofu do not war (2018), digitally printed tapestries can be seen through 3D glasses, the mysterious figure group depicts deep animals in a forest. Ambiguous details, such as Babel Tower, astronaut and space capsule, and protest banners George Orwell and contemporary climate protests, confusing and possible mix of past.
It is very popular for the unique blend of installation and museology, was named the Macuga 2008 Turner Award and was chosen at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2023.
B. 1998 lives in Washington, DC Washington, DC and New York.
DC, DC, DC, Emmanuel Massillon is a growing city of growing in the city. With reference to jazz, R + B and rap music, they often include dirt, food products, food products, and bullet shells, along with the wood inspired by Haitian Heritians.
In Competition look (2022), two traditional African busts were printed, “in the desert food”, deducting access to cheap and healthy foods. Such as other boxes “Dog food” (fire and stone) (2022) Combine the dreadful images of malicious dogs, with thick layers of red paint mixed with real dog food.
He is studying his BFA at the Visual Arts school in Massillon in New York, where Silas H. Rodes granted him. Since 2017, he has shown in several solo shows, such as the Paris Kadet hat and the space of the Atlanta artist.
