Anselm Kiefer ‘The Fallen Angel’
Everyday 10am - 8pm (11pm on Thursday) until 21st July
Palazzo Strozzi
Until the 21st July 2024 take a visit to the Palazzo Strozzi,
www.palazzostrozzi.org where a major exhibition, ‘The Fallen Angel’, is taking place.
It is an exhibition of one of the greatest masters of the 20th and 21st century, Anselm Kiefer. The exhibition allows for direct contact with the German artist’s works, stirring thoughts on identity, history and philosophy. It includes historical and new works and also a new commission for the palace’s internal courtyard.
Through his various artistic outlets, his art offers a deep introspection in the human condition, the complex connections between past, present and future.
Since his first works in the late 60’s he has been involved in an impactful, multi-layered work exploring memory, myth, history, literature and poetry.
Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Germany and is regarded as one of the most important and versatile artists of today. He is an artist of many different forms, painting, sculpture, photography, woodcut, artist’s books, installations and architecture.
His early works looked back towards the Third Reich as a means of breaking the silence and by deconstructing Germanic legends, he explored his own identity and culture.
Kiefer originally worked in Odenwald and this is where he picked up many of his techniques which have now beomre emblematic in his works.
Kiefer moved to France in 1992 and started to extensively travel in distant places such as India, Asia, America and Northern Africa which became seen in his works.
Landscapes from the South of France began appearing, structures resembling Mesopotamian architecture and depictions of constellations also appeared. Kiefer is also a keen reader and his work also reflects this, overlapping both genres,
Not only is Kiefer an artist but also has a keen interest in architecture and after having converted a brick factory into a studio and included installations and sculptures. Whilst living in Barjac, France he converted the property around the studio to create a network of underground tunnels and crypts that connect various art works.
The studio is now part of the Eschaton-Anselm Kiefer Foundation which was opened in 2022 coinciding with Kiefer’s return to Venice, where inspired by the writings of Andrea Emo, created a cycle of paintings which were installed in Doge’s Palace.
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