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Anselm Kiefer: Exorcising the Ghosts of German Past |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Derek Guthrie |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,209 Words, 13,428 Characters |
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Anselm Kiefer is obsessed with the way history has shaped the life and culture of the German people. In his search for an adequate artistic language to articulate his painful insights, the 43-year-old West German artist has become, almost despite himself, an avatar, a throwback to the grandiose, power-seeking visions that he strives to explain.
His ambition may be fatally flawed. But the traveling Kiefer retrospective, which will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles between June 14 and September 11 before ending its tour this fall at New York's Museum of Modern Art, surely confirms to the broad American audience what critics and connoisseurs have been saying in the art press: that Kiefer is the most powerful new artist to have emerged in the last twenty years.
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... are only temporarily removed from the dark forces that produced the Holocaust.
In the final analysis, his works offer no real reconciliation with the horrors of World War II. Rather, they suggest that the will alone is powerless and that hopes of a reasonable and coherent world are vain. Ultimately, Kiefer's latest paintings are offensive to viewers who have faith in either God or man.
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