All in the name of art: Mariele Neudecker

I felt the need to say a few words about today artist documentary by Mariele Neudecker, first of if you missed it the you missed out as she is an amazingly versatile artist who has so much feeling and emotion behind her work. The meaning's not only run deep visually but also are easy to relate to. I have to say that although I loved her sculpture work which have an amazingly realistic feel and ingenious style it was he video and music/sound work that grabbed my attention the most. which is surprising to me as i am not often drawn to video pieces. I want to mention a few but I will keep it brief so not to bore, as I pretty much wrote down not only every everything that was said in the two documentaries but also a couple of pages of my reactions and translations of them. but don't panic I will keep this brief. The pieces I would recommend to look into thinking back to everyone else's work are, "unrecallable now" and 'I don't no how i resisted the urge to run' 1998/2001 a mixture of natural materials and sculptured mountain ranges, visually fantastic and fascinating process.

Also ones that might relate to your work are,

Ambassador

2006

lazer-jet prints on foil

site-specific public works installation for six month

front (convex) 670 x 790 cm

top (concave) 1185 x 492 cm

side (behind glass) 348 x 375 cm

Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived

2000

epoxy resin modeled by stereo-lithographic process

8 x 25 x 67 cm

The two pieces that I found myself almost mesmerized by are, 'Kindertotenlieder' and 'Winterriser' (I think this is spelt right!) this is not a format of artistic display or exhibition i ever remember seeing before which is one reason I thought this is fantastic the combination of a live singer beautifully emotive video along with the text worked so well together in creating the emotion of the piece, but it has also inspired me to look at using video and music/sound with in my own work. the second piece 'Winterriser' was always going to draw my attention as I love Kathleen Ferrier's voice but all the aspects that Neudecker combines together the visual, music all incorporated into small rooms expanded my inspiration/imagination of this format/mediums, this is a piece of work I would love to see.

Kindertotenlieder

2005

27”