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I’ve been a fan of artist German artist Katharina Fritsch and her oeuvre of hyper-realistic (and often surreal) sculptures since I first met These Guys. This past May, I wandered into Matthew Marks Gallery and was happily supposed to find a selection of her sculptues on view! Having experienced many family camping trips a small child, I was particularly entranced by Auto und Wohnwagen / Car and Caravan (1079 / 2026). Sure, it looks like a perfectly ordinary road-trip scene — a sleek black car pulling a little white caravan. But this is definitely not your average family vacation.
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Katharina Fritsch makes meticulous reproductions of everyday objects, rendering them unfamiliar through extreme shifts in scale and either alluring or repellent color choices. Indeed, saturated and non reflective collators of color lend her sculptures a stones sense of otherworldliness.
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Yinka Shonbare MBE, Girl Girl Ballerina (All Photos By Gail)
What an amazing treat it is to have Flag Art Foundation founder Glenn and his wife Amanda Furhman share a selection of sculptures and assorted artworks from their own private collection with fans of their very cool gallery. Geoffrey and I attended the opening reception on Saturday (in the middle of a snow storm!) and were just blown away by an amazing collection that looks like it belongs in a museum. Here are a few of our favorite pieces!
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From MoMA:
A brilliant yellow Madonna, a set of skeleton feet, a grey giant leaning obdurately on his club, a green and boyish-looking St. Michael slaying the dragon, a pitch-black snake — these and other figures make up a curious cast of characters currently on view in MoMA’s Sculpture Garden. Figurengruppe (Group of Figures) is a tightly arranged ensemble of nine sculptures by the German contemporary artist Katharina Fritsch, first conceived in 2006–08 in painted polyester and recast in 2010–11 in durable lacquered copper and bronze for outdoor display.
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