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Artworks
Katharina Fritsch Alemania Occidental, b. 1956
Riese/Giant, 2010Polyester and paint40 x 15 x 18 cm
15 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in© 2010 Katharina Fritsch / Courtesy Fundación AMMAPhoto: Alejandro PaezFurther images
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.
