MARIELE NEUDECKER

Heaven The Sky, (top)

2008.

Final Fantasy (bottom)

2008

Images courtesy of the artist and Gallerie Barbara Thumm

Mariele Neudecker presents two recent works. Heaven The Sky is her most recent enquiry into the miniature replication of landscapes against the backdrop of the history of German Romanticism. This new sculpture is the first glass tank piece produced in 4 years and continues her fascination with the mimicry of the conditions at play in the natural landscape, where fog, clouds and mist form a context for our romantic encounter with mountain ranges. This first US and UK showing of this work, which was commissioned for the 2008 Singapore Biennial. The second piece, Final Fantasy, in some ways presents the antithesis of the monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A space odyssey. In Kubrick’s adaptation the giant body of black solidity represents optimism, here the dense resin rapid prototype model of a flight box recorder sits quietly like another type of monument. This feels more like the embodiment of silence, encapsulated forever.