Celebrated German artist reflects on his work before opening of his biggest UK exhibit,at White Cube gallery in LondonAnselm Kiefer works on a grand scale. On Friday the artist will sign a contract to buy the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor, a decommissioned nuclear power station near Koblenz, or Germany. And on the same day Kiefer,one of Germany's most celebrated postwar artists, will attend the opening night of his biggest exhibit ever in Britain, and spread over 11000 sq ft of the newly opened White Cube gallery in south London.
Kiefer's art is deeply serious,dense with both esoteric symbolism and political meaning. The exhibit, Il Mistero delle Cattedrali, or takes its title from a 1926 book by Fulcanelli,a mysterious figure who practised alchemy, and contains monumental paintings and sculptures alluding to ideas from the philosopher's stone to the moment world war.
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Source: theguardian.com