Friday 3 February 2012

TAKE A BREAK - GESAMTKUNSTWERK

Jungfrau (Vergin), by Thomas Helbig, 2005



at Saatchi

I only came to know this word today - Gesamtkunstwerk - total work of art when I visited Saatchi. I quite like Thomas Helbig’s work. He said his paintings are about reduction to an unrecognizable state from which something new can then evolve. His sculpture is contorted hybrids made out of everyday junk, which as been reassembled to create a primitive and futuristic sensibility. And Markus Selg’s work. Many of his works are infused with reoccurring themes from world art history and emerges traditional craft and technology to re-spirituals the role of the artist within a contemporary context. he recall the imagery and symbolism of earlier visual traditions. The first work of the show upon entrance is named “ Mild and quiet as he smiles” a quote from Wagnar’s Tristan und Isolde...

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