Giant No.1 Artwork

Protruding from the darkness of rectangular forms, the name-giving power line rises into the air. In front of Lena Schmidt’s work »Giant No.1«, the gaze follows the clear, geometric struts at the foot of the giant, which in their engineered form bear witness to the influence of humans, as they increasingly dissolve into organic forms with the bend of the pole. The masts, through which today’s world is connected, are thus dissolved in a form of decline and takeover by natural-temporal forces – storm or time – and thus pose questions about the permanence of a man-made, mechanized modernity. At the same time, the theme of the impact of humans (e.g. the artist) on nature takes on a productive character through the use of plywood. The movement of the gaze in the picture intertwines, through light and color direction, the darkness in the foreground with the almost metaphysical bluish-beige brightness. In this way, the time of construction (at the base) and the time of demise (at the top) are interwoven and the distinction between simultaneous and sequential events is dissolved. The construction does not break as a single event, but is in the process of breaking over time - and thus seems to inscribe itself in the steadily advancing but climaxless catastrophe of the decline of human civilization. Text: Jule Haas

Mixed Media:Woodcut on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.2 W x 65.7 H x 1.2 D in

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