Conversations: Anselm Kiefer and Rod Mengham | White Cube

To coincide with Anselm Kiefer’s major solo show at White Cube Bermondsey, the artist was joined in conversation by author, editor and professor Rod Mengham. From the gallery, they explored the artist’s long-standing fascination with James Joyce’s 1939 novel Finnegans Wake, from which the exhibition takes its name.
Kiefer details the way his relationship to and understanding of Finnegans Wake has changed and developed over the years, and how literary, poetic and philosophical sources have long influenced his practice throughout his career, which spans over 50 years.
The exhibition runs from 7 June - 20 August 2023.
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[@brendapaint]

loved his new movie.. love his work and mind

[@WayneStakem]

He's a very intelligent and well read man who really gets the beauty in chaos and the importance of destruction in the creative process! He has a very complex perspective! I love it!

[@scoon2117]

Ive never been so proud to own a copy of finnegans wake.

[@terrysteichen873]

What an art animal. Love his work

[@JGS2024]

From ruins springs up hope, tunnels connect us with our roots wherever we live, the process of painting reveals intentions or results which are not conscious to the painter. I shall remember these thoughts. His paintings are powerful. The professor does not read well the intentions of the painter yet the conversation was fruitful.

[@plumeria66]

I went to his installation in Berlin back in the early 90s. It was so beautiful.

[@edwardparsons2972]

I love finnegans wake. I wade in it continually, and I think Anselm Kiefer is another colossus, the supreme genius of the visual art of these decades. my thanks to Professor Mengham and to Anselm whose work brings me such deep joy

[@albertoballocca]

I'm humbled

[@ailimaimaiti]

This is incredible, one of the well-known living artist today. what is odd of witnessing this conversation.

[@edwardferry8247]

William Kentridge’s quotation springs to mind, ‘invite the philosopher in for coffee, but when making the work leave him outside’. Unfortunately the ‘academic’ brings him back in after the work is complete and does very little (particularly here) to enhance the felt experience.

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[@daigreatcoat44]

I'm not clear what enhancing the felt experience would consist of. It seems to me that Rod Mengham, who is a poet and publisher of poetry as well as an academic, does well in encouraging Kiefer to express the enthusiasms which feed his work. Also, the brief views of the exhibition help - particularly as I missed it - to give an idea of the physicality of the work. In any case, I don't share the common distrust of academics: some are good, some aren't, and it's up to the rest of us to decide which is which.

[@conceicaosilveira1319]

Podem colocar legendas?

[@belbras]

A pencil in the pocket. ✏

[@darylcumming7119]

Literature collides with visual art.