Tag: florals

ANSELM KIEFER

(Donaueschingen 1945 – lives and works among others in Paris)Nigredo-Albedo-Rubedo. 2006.Oil, emulsion, lead, wood, terracotta soil, fabric and wire, also 5 dried sunflowers. Bound as a book with 9 pages, each page consisting of cardboard and fibreboard.Each 196 x 140 cm. Sunflowers max. 430 cm.

Kiki Smith, Heute, 2008

“Ms. Smith, whose younger sister Beatrice died with AIDS in 1988, has long been fixated on the fragility of the human body. In her 2008 sculpture “Heute (Now),” left, on view in Ms. Smith’s Brooklyn Museum show, a coffin in unfinished knotty pine holds meticulous lamp-worked glass dandelions, produced by the glass artist David Willis, sprouting from its interior. (It also represents another thread that has run through her work for decades: an interest in unusual juxtapositions of materials.) Although the date of the work corresponds to the 20th anniversary of her sister’s death, Ms. Smith said she was not conscious of this when she made it; rather, the piece speaks to her fascination with natural-world cycles of death and renewal.”

—NY Times