Rosemarie Trockel has placed her sculpture created from yew bushes nearby the work of Donald Judd on the Aasee banks with accurate vehemence. She carefully joins nature to nature, thus setting two blocks of the evergreen tree on the meadow.Estratto da un articolo di ABRAHAM ORDEN
"Less Sauvage than Others is an installation by Rosemarie Trockel: a subtle and extremely well conceived take on such post-modernist public sculpture in the present tense comes from Rosemarie Trockel, who has installed on the shores of Lake Aa two yew bushes sculpted into adjoining monolithic plinths, each about 15 feet high and with only a small space between, not far from a beautiful field of blooming poppies. I usually don’t give preference to materials that need a back-story, but there is something powerful about the yew. An old standby in English gardens, the yew can live to be over 1,000 years old. It is extremely poisonous, yet modern medicine extracts a drug for cancer from it. Trockel’s work, however, depends on none of this; its form alone compels. Although it is overtly familiar, it continually undoes our preconceptions. Where we expect stony inertia, there are faunal kinetics; where we read masculine architectonics, there is de-gendered naturalism, and so on." Extract from an article by ABRAHAM ORDEN
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