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“Give ‘Em Props!”— Anselm Kiefer by CUE of So Fuzzy Crew

/>Lilith 1987-9 Oil, ash and copper wire on canvas “This is a painting
that inspires me everytime i see it, it looks like shit in this reproduction,
but standing in front of it makes you feel like you are falling. Its an image of
sao paulo from above with wires coming out at you so the painting seems to
surround you (i dont have the words to describe the feeling) . Seeing this
painting and seeing the film "http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082912">PIXOTE about kids living on the streets
made me travel to Brazil to check out Sao P + Rio, an AMAZING experience… I
want to go back there, preferably with a 6 foot Brazilian chick this time…
(sorry im digressing from the painting) If you are in London go to the amazing
Tate Gallery and check
this painting out, its a gem. This is the view a Pixaocao painter has of the
city…bloody unbelievable.”

(this is the blurb next to the
painting)
This horrific vision of urban sprawl was inspired by Kiefer’s
visit to Sao Paulo in Brazil. Tangled copper wiring signals the breakdown of
communication. The city is engulfed in an apocalyptic haze, which Kiefer created
by spreading dust and earth across the painting, then burning parts of its
surface. According to Hebrew mythology, Lilith was Adam’s first wife, a
seductive and demonic airborne spirit. In Kiefer’s painting, Lilith seems to
bring destruction from the air upon Oscar Niemeyer’s modernist buildings. (?)