Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Cattedrali
German-born artist Anselm Kiefer lives and works in France and Portugal. He is currently presenting ‘Il Mistero delle Cattedrali’, an 11,000 square foot installation at the White Cube Bermondsey Gallery in London, until Feb 26.
Kiefer’s mixed media exhibition explores the idea of alchemy and spans four decades of the artist’s work including several sculptures and paintings formed from a variety of materials such as terracotta, resin, copper, oil, rubber, salt, paint, lead, steel and all manner of organic material. He balances powerful imagery with acute critical analysis and many of his featured pieces investigate themes of mythology or religion, and the period of Nazism in his homeland’s history.
