KIEFER, Anselm — Anselm Kiefer Die Buchstaben NL / ENG
, WIENAND, 2015 Gebonden, Hardcover, 64 pagina's / pages, NL / ENG, 43 illustraties in kleur / illustrations in colour, groot formaat / large size; 375 x 275 mm, ISBN 9783868323078. Our civilization would be unimaginable without letters. The printed word in particular shapes our existence when it is sensibly strung together into words, sentences and writings. Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) deals with this power of the word in his work The Letters, to which this publication is dedicated. Sunflowers growing out of a printing press, rolls of film stretching across the floor, and scattered letters combine to create a space-filling installation. The artist develops an ambiguous symbiosis from the surprising combination of technical object and natural organism. Numerous large-format detailed illustrations enable an intensive immersion in this complex poetic spatial staging.
