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Gestalt (Todesfigur)
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At first glance, Gestalt (Todesfigur) from 1988 might well be taken for a bronze sculpture made around 1900, a time when artists were keenly interested in symbolic subject matter intended to remind the viewer of life’s big questions and emotions.
The robed figure apparently represents Death, and the eerie, unsettling quality of the figure has been ‘amplified’ by the removal of its core. Lemmerz’s figure is hollow, an empty shell, a ghostly illusion .
Insofar as the work holds specific critical meaning, it is not to be found in the depths; rather, it arises on the surface. In the seductive folds of the macabre sculptural drapery.
Birgitte Anderberg
Title: Gestalt (Todesfigur)
Description:
At first glance, Gestalt (Todesfigur) from 1988 might well be taken for a bronze sculpture made around 1900, a time when artists were keenly interested in symbolic subject matter intended to remind the viewer of life’s big questions and emotions.
The robed figure apparently represents Death, and the eerie, unsettling quality of the figure has been ‘amplified’ by the removal of its core.
Lemmerz’s figure is hollow, an empty shell, a ghostly illusion .
Insofar as the work holds specific critical meaning, it is not to be found in the depths; rather, it arises on the surface.
In the seductive folds of the macabre sculptural drapery.
Birgitte Anderberg.
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