Online Reading
Anselm Kiefer
Transition from Cool to Warm
Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm is available for online reading from May 31 through July 1 as part of the From the Library series. The catalogue documents the artist’s exhibition at Gagosian New York in 2017. Central to this publication are more than forty watercolors made between 2012 and 2016, marking Kiefer’s return to the medium after forty years. The exhibition also featured over forty unique artist books and nine monumental landscape paintings, which are included in the catalogue. Essays by novelist Karl Ove Knausgård and art historian James Lawrence are included, along with an interview by art journalist Louisa Buck and the artist.
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Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm (New York: Gagosian, 2017)
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Anselm Kiefer
Vienna State Opera Safety Curtain
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Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
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Anselm Kiefer has been selected to design the twenty-sixth Eiserner Vorhang (Safety Curtain), an annual project by Vienna’s museum in progress, a nonprofit art initiative that transforms the fire protection wall between the stage and the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art. Kiefer’s work is on view for the audience before and after performances and during intermissions.
Anselm Kiefer’s safety curtain, Solaris (2023), for the 2023–24 season of the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker, courtesy museum in progress
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Les Fleurs du Mal
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Maison Guerlain, Paris
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Anselm Kiefer, Extases féminines—Margherite Porete (Feminine Ecstasies––Margherite Porete), 2012 © Anselm Kiefer
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Anselm Kiefer
Barry Bergdoll
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Columbia Global Center, Paris
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Anselm Kiefer’s permanent installation in the Panthéon, Paris. Artwork © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Georges Poncet
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