Objektkästen

Objektkästen Synopsis

The objects of the ninety-five-year old artist Albert Kiefer are packed in boxes. Inside the little wooden cases, packaging or cardboard boxes he puts found pieces from nature, but also artifacts and sometimes objects that he made himself. Sometimes scary, hollow-eyed faces of masks peer out of them, sometimes we see appliquéd tools.

Sometimes, the materials in his boxes are reminiscent of the works of his son Anselm. One senses that both take the transient from nature, while being connected to it. Photographed by Anne Schwalbe.