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THE WORK OF MARIELE NEUDECKER ...
The work of Mariele Neudecker (born 1965) deals with the concepts of "the romantic" and its reception and nationalistic abuse throughout German history. Drawing on the tradition of German romantic painting and its most prominent representative Caspar David Friedrich, the artist recreates and transforms the historical work into three-dimensional, contemporary versions. Her major installation "Unrecallable Now" (1998) consists of a model representation of an alpine range submerged in a freestanding aquarium of water. Not only is this huge sculpture a reference to the concept of romantic landscape both in painting and literature of that time, it also time reflects contemporary postmodern theory by laying open the sculptures' components. A similar approach is taken by recreating model landscapes that represent archetypes of German landscape and their counterparts in fairy tale and art history, which are built in small tanks filled with liquids. And although these works reveal that atmosphere is created by chemistry they are still of an amazing beauty.
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