8-teilige Sequenz aus der Aktion: Membran-Objekt

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Dieter Appelt, who spent twenty years as an opera singer before becoming a visual artist, creates “Aktions,” or performances for his camera using his own body as a sculptural medium. Undergoing these experiences, he accesses elemental states of physical and emotional being that he shares through series of photographs. To create this sequence, Appelt enclosed his body in a sculpture he called the “Membrane-Object,” protecting and entrapping himself. Caked in marble dust, the sculpture’s color and cracked surface suggest decay and death. Appelt may be alluding to “dust unto dust” or to personal memory—after World War II, the artist and his family returned to their farm to find decomposing bodies of soldiers, covered with dirt, in their fields.

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German
Portrait
Contemporary Art
Face
Black and White