2006 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Anselm Kiefer Exhibition Poster

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The first American survey of Anselm Kiefer's work in almost two decades, this exhibition includes more than sixty major paintings, … Read more The first American survey of Anselm Kiefer's work in almost two decades, this exhibition includes more than sixty major paintings, watercolors, books, and sculptures created from 1969 to 2005. Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth is organized by Michael Auping, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's chief curator. The exhibition reveals the layers of meaning threaded throughout all of Kiefer's work, specifically tracking his life-long interest in a visual exploration of a dialogue between heaven and earth. The exhibition includes a number of early works from the artist's private collection, as well as key paintings from private and public collections in Europe and the North America. The curator describes the exhibition as "not a retrospective, but a thematic survey that sheds a different light on the development and intention behind Kiefer's career. It begins with his very first work of art, a book entitled The Heavens. This is not an exhibition about religion, but about why we keep looking for heaven and not finding it."

THe official (SOLD OUT) poster for the retrospective exhibition of Anselm Kiefer's work, the exhibition addressed the artist's entire career through the lens of one compelling theme.
From his earliest sculptures to his recent highly textured paintings, Anselm Kiefer has woven themes of heaven and earth into his work, exploring the polarities of these ideas while struggling to define the transcendent quality that places art squarely in between. Destruction and rebirth, glory and shame, sin and redemption all figure largely in Kiefer's often controversial depictions of Germany's physical and cultural landscape. See less