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Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer

28 September – 11 November 2018

Dates

28 September – 11 November 2018

Location

White Cube Bermondsey

144 – 152 Bermondsey Street
London SE1 3TQ

One day, I gathered up my parachute and said: ‘Between two swallows and a star.’ Here death is coming closer like the earth to a falling balloon. [...] And now my parachute drops from dream to dream through the spaces of death.

— Vicente Huidobro, Altazor, Preface, 1931 (Translated by Eliot Weinberger)

Titled For Vicente Huidobro: Life is a parachute voyage and not what you’d like to think it is (2018), this large-scale vitrine directly responds to the spatial proportions of the 9 x 9 x 9 gallery.

For Vicente Huidobro […] is informed by Kiefer’s career-long focus on themes of mortality, spirituality, history and the metaphorical power inherent within objects and materials. Referencing lines of poetry from Altazor (1931), the master work of avant-garde Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, it exemplifies the artist’s signature poetic and potent transformation of matter, played out on a monumental scale.

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