Anselm Kiefer has a very powerful solo exhibition in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg
A painting by Anselm Kiefer. Photos: The State Hermitage Museum Here you have a good reason to travel to Saint Petersburg: In the State Hermitage Museum you can just now see a very powerful solo exhibition by the German artist Anselm Kiefer . The exhibition is a contemporary artist’s dedication to the Russian poet Velimir Khlebnikov . The exhibition will be seen in the colossal Nikolaevsky hall of the Winter Palace where Kiefer has created about 30 new big paintings. For Kiefer, poetical production often turns into a starting point: “I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse”, he describes. Great paintings are mainly brown and grayish by their colors. They have references to nature or to ships. The name is often Aurora or Untitled . The paint layers are thick and the oil paintings a...