Giant Rats, Green Angel, and Red Man
The art of Katharina Fritsch is about contrasts such as familiarity vs. surreality. An example is some of the religious sculptures look like they’ve been seen before, but with addition of a bright or solid color over them–these statues have a new and intriguing appeal.
Notes about the artist (from White Cube):
Katharina Fritsch’s iconic and singular sculpture plays on the tension between reality and apparition, between the familiar and the surreal or uncanny. Her iconic objects, images, installations and sound works seem able to imprint themselves on the mind, as if they were gestalts or things we have seen and experienced before. Hearts, crosses, skulls, bottles and Madonnas are used to play on the fantasies and images that we share, but they are transformed through colour and material into things open and mysterious: latent notions transfigured into primal forms.
Last two photos © Design Boom Link via Sweet Station
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