Katharina Fritsch Alemania Occidental, b. 1956
Riese/Giant, 2010
Polyester and paint
40 x 15 x 18 cm
15 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in
15 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in
© 2010 Katharina Fritsch / Courtesy Fundación AMMA
Photo: Alejandro Paez
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A small-scale sculpture of a man dressed only in a loincloth, leaning against a stake. The smooth surface and concrete-gray color suggest an intermediate stage of production, as if the piece were awaiting final finishing.
Fritsch is renowned for sculptures and installations in which ordinary objects are treated with an unsettling, uncanny sensibility. Her work plays with the tension between reality and the liminal—between the familiar and the strange or surreal—evoked through a simple approach.
Fritsch is renowned for sculptures and installations in which ordinary objects are treated with an unsettling, uncanny sensibility. Her work plays with the tension between reality and the liminal—between the familiar and the strange or surreal—evoked through a simple approach.