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Anselm Kiefer Gagosian 21 June–24 August 2024 Athens
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Gagosian is pleased to announce Anselm Kiefer’s debut solo exhibition in Greece. Opening on June 21, it features new and recent paintings, sculpture, and photography.

Kiefer’s landscapes convey poetic responses to myth, history, and the natural world, evoking themes of creation, metamorphosis, and the cyclical nature of existence. These works are united by the artist’s juxtaposition of the luminosity of gold with the visual and symbolic resonance of other mediums including oil and acrylic paint, shellac, straw, and fabric. Kiefer contrasts the materials’ varying tonalities and textures to impart the sublimity of nature and the weight of history. He alludes to gold’s allegorical significance by making reference to the metal’s use in sacred icons and ancient legends, its alchemical symbolism in relation to lead (another key material in his practice), and the ideal of a “golden age.”

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Anselm Kiefer’s monumental body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical allusions—from the Old and New Testaments, Kabbalah mysticism, Norse mythology and Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.

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Gagosian is a global network of art galleries specialising in modern and contemporary art with eighteen exhibition spaces worldwide.
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