Neo Rauch: ”Nexus”, Oil on Canvas, 300 x 420 cm, 2006
“ Here's a quote from Botho Strauss' "Couples, Passersby": "The earth is peopled equally with angels, devils and gods. Probably we're not alone. Descendants of the heavenly and hellish hordes no doubt crisscross our breasts and thwart our common essence. Could it be that we will soon be taken by a new lust for allegory? A lust for grand incarnations, for the many dreamed-out ideas of our century to become flesh? You can't get as pensive or abstract as we have done in our scientific age without at the end encountering something new. A fresh body will issue from the idea, out of fog and light, and came wafting across towards us." Is that how you see your work?
Wonderful. That's it. Exactly that. As if I'd read it before I painted.“
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