View Single Post
Old 08-21-2011, 05:37 AM   #1
debbigjih
 
Posts: n/a
Thumbs up 78% Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Sophie Fiennes records Anselm Kiefer, as the 65-year-old world-renowned artist creates a spectacular architectonic landscape. "In 1993 (Kiefer) left his native Germany and settled in Barjac in France, where he bought a derelict silk factory, transforming it into an extraordinary artistic centre... <a href="http://www.soso-trade.com/s-Nike-Free-run-2-f2-90-c3-539.html"><strong>Nike Free run</strong></a> at once the place where his paintings and sculptures are housed and displayed, and a colossal, evolving architectural artwork in itself. Fiennes begins by roaming through the tunnels and corridors of his studio-network: huge, disorienting <a href="http://www.soso-trade.com/s-Nike-Lunarglide-3-f2-90-c3-590.html"><strong>Nike Lunarglide +3</strong></a> shapes and forms loom, composed of earth and mud. There are giant, organic pillars, like stalagmites or termite mounds, a visual or conceptual rhyme to the towers built outside... Fiennes's emphases are almost abstract: color, light, texture, form - and to these, she adds sound, using the music of J�rg Widmann and Gy�rgy Ligeti. <a href="http://www.soso-trade.com/s-Adidas-Wings-f2-56-c3-560.html"><strong>adidas wings</strong></a> Anselm's studio is a place where real, hard work is going on: smelting, sawing and hammering... His artistry looks as if it could be taking place centuries ago, and yet it feels very modern... A deeply serious meditation on artistic practice and expression." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK) --(C) Alive Mind
  Reply With Quote

Sponsored Links