ROLF SZYMANSKI, BLACK SUN PRESS, 1969-73
Bronze, 177 x 69 x 88,5 cm
Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
On permanent loan from Galerie Brusberg, Berlin 1991
Unprotected and vulnerable, a devastated, volcanic body faces the viewer. It moves forward and retreats; it pulsates and breathes erratically. With its bulges and breasts, cavities and protruding parts, it shifts the center of gravity upwards. A man with small legs stands off center, unstable in space. Facing us in his broken state, he seems to absorb reality; he radiates the fullness of life and all of its carnality. Made of earth, cast in ore.

