YSL / 1965
Unraveled HANK OF WOOL
Arachne wove a tapestry depicting extreme debauchery but so
excellent that Athena, also a weaver, was offended and destroyed it,
turning Arachne into a spider.
Web woven on high dose of caffeine / woven on mescaline
Rosemarie Trockel, Scaredy Cat / 1983, from Rosemarie Trockel by Sidra Stitch
Like many of Fritsch's sculptures, this piece has an ambiguous
reality somewhere between the imaginary and the factual. An
ethereal apparition is turned into a material object. The form of
the ghost comes from draping a sheet over a model. To determine
the shape of the pool of blood, the artist lay down on the floor
while liquid was poured around her. The puddle produced
became the outline for the pool.
'Why should a ghost look like that? Actually we have no idea
'Why should a ghost look like that? Actually we have no idea
what they look like. I find it interesting that in this work I have
made something real that does not in fact exist.'
/ Katharina Fritsch
(via the Tate Modern)
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