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Renate Wiehager

DaimlerChrysler Collection

This volume presents works that have been purchased by the DaimlerChrysler Collection, initially only interested in Southern German artists but now international and mainly minimalist. Each work is introduced, examined and put in context.

Tradition und Tendenzen minimalistischer Kunst von 1950 bis heute : Neuerwerbungen für die Sammlung 2000 bis 2006

Minimalism and after

Jane Alexander

Akiko Miki

Simon Njami

Somewhere between realism and metaphor, humanity and bestiality, South Africa and the rest of the world, Jane Alexander's sculptures give shape to the brutal, painful, tragic, bizarre, incomprehensible, and fragile existence of her multicultural society--and, to a lesser extent, others. Existening in a no-man's-land where the difference between victim and perpetrator is blurred and meaningless, her life-size figures, made from fiberglass, wood, clay, and found objects, sometimes dressed as people do, sometimes naked as people and animals are, are uncanny in their astonishing naturalism, a naturalism thwarted by bandages, animal masks, incomprehending animal eyes, and violent lacerations. This is the first extensive publication dedicated to Alexander's work.

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