NEO RAUCH.(artist, Germany)(Brief Article)

GALERIE FUR ZEITGENOSSISCHE KUNST LEIPZIG, GERMANY

Everywhere in Neo Rauch's paintings you see people at work--building, calculating, measuring, and producing- yet the machine has broken down. Mechanical fragments are strewn about. In the large-scale Lehre (Doctrine), 1999, a paunchy wrestler snoozes on the floor. His rather worldly dreams materialize on the wall behind him in the form of a monochromatic image. An official looking figure is pointing at the black rectangle with a white stick, perhaps trying to explain some kind of statistical development to his female assistant. ...

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