Karin Lambrecht Brazilian, b. 1957
Installation view from MAC-USP, São Paulo of 'St Matthew and Mary', 1993
Wooden cupboard, book, earth, cut and sewn fabric [ephemeral object]
200 x 300 x 100 cms
78 3/4 x 118 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches
(area of installation)
78 3/4 x 118 1/8 x 39 3/8 inches
(area of installation)
Having attended lectures by Joseph Beuys at the Hochschule der Künste (HDK), Lambrecht seems to have been inspired by his use of materials. She takes a metaphorical slant of the...
Having attended lectures by Joseph Beuys at the Hochschule der Künste (HDK), Lambrecht seems to have been inspired by his use of materials. She takes a metaphorical slant of the materials she uses, natural and organic substances such as fat, felt, copper (insulators and conductors of electricity); the reclamation of her spiritual and symbolic dignity in art; the return to the natural world, to religiosity and transcendence – after all, as Beuys said, “How to undertake a process of rehumanizing man?”