Exhibition‘Light is only the dust – Sculpture‘
Cathleen aims her figures straight into my heart. They are true, these portraits, just as this artist and her work have always been. Open, honest, painful and wonderful. Monumental down to the smallest sculptural work. It is impossible to escape it. I love the anger and rage in her work, the great narrative art that can be found in her sculptural works as well as in her filigree, finely composed and yet massive black and white woodcuts. A labyrinth of lines and furrows that always point directly to the themes that preoccupy the sculptor – the fates of individuals, which are always reflected in the big picture: People at war, the suffering of refugees worldwide, the consequences of Germany’s recent past. But also her own life, her own history. It is not possible for Cathleen Meier to create pleasingly beautiful things. She has to walk through this world with open eyes and point out what she sees and cannot approve of. That hurts. And it should. And yet, or precisely because of this, her works are deeply moving and for me are among the most important and most beautiful things that art can achieve. (Susanne Theumer)
Speaker: Alfons Scholz
Music at the vernissage: Zsolt Visontay, violin
Image: Cathleen Meier, Magdeburger Jungs, wood sculpture, 2014, photo: Falk Wenzel