12/22/2023 0 Comments Bohemian Rhapsody instal![]() ![]() Visitors to the Daniel Buchholz Gallery in Cologne on this winter's evening in 1996 chat amongst themselves or, slightly disturbed, look at the scene on the floor. ![]() He is smoking, and brushes his hair off his face from time to time, staring into space in a detached sort of way. His pale torso is bare and painted with coloured horizontal stripes like a pullover. Far from conforming to the usual folksy idea of the artist, like a child with its toys, bringing life to dead objects through unfocused images of amazed innocence, Althoff reclaims a lived social history through the dream-like, emotional richness of distant memory.Īlthoff is sitting on a mattress. Perhaps we take it for granted that visual artists - unlike eternally adolescent rock rebels - deal in a considered, adult way with the perceptual reservoirs of childhood, but Kai Althoff breathes unexpected life into this territory. ![]()
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