What struck me most was his ability to 'hold it all together' - to have immense complexity playing itself out across a canvas, every square centimetre rich in detail, but all resolved into a working whole.
The power of work in vitrines - the extra depth of field, the focus
Also the use of text:
- the casual scrawling across a painting of words, usually a line of poetry, but lost on the viewer unless they understand German and are familiar with its literature
- incorporation of text e.g. into the furrows of Black Flakes.
- the image of the lead book (lead the most mutable of the metals)
- in The Rhine the partial obscuring of text, whitewashing, collaging
An interview with Anselm Kiefer, ahead of his Royal Academy show – Financial Times
Inside Anselm Kiefer's astonishing 200-acre art studio – The Guardian
Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy, preview: Is he our greatest living artist? – The Independent
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