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| Anselm Kiefer Meterorites |
Weight 6.6 tons
The uningratiating, even abrasive, visual qualities, the towering scale, the implied footnotes, the defiance of beauty, is too much for some critics. They respond with words intended to condemn Kiefer as elitist, as insufficiently relativist, or pomo, or something. They term the work bombastic, pompous, ponderous, theatrical, cerebral, remote, refusing to see the significance of this mordant monument to the desolate, distressed, unconsoling, the wreckage of cultural knowledge heaved into a gallery by crane.
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| Anselm Kiefer, The Hight Priestess/Land of Two Rivers |
Height 12 Feet
Width 25 and a half feet
Depth 1 and a half feet
1985-89
Twin bookcases, labelled Tigris and Euphrates, containing approximately 200 lead books.
The cradle of human civilisation turned into impossible books, memorialising the cultural apocalypses of the Inquisition and Wahabi'ism and foreshadowing the Theatre of Progressive War under the directorship of the Simian-in-Chief and Pope Tony.
Dusty, cobwebbed volumes, too hefty to lift, with inaccessible or indeterminate content, are an affront to modernity and the utopia amours of Progress. Kiefer refuses to forget his cultural inheritance and insists on the power and resonance of old ideas and old artifacts.
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