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Article: Anselm Kiefer: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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- Artforum International
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- March 1, 2006
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Anselm Kiefer's work is so well known, and has been so extensively written about and exhibited, one wondered what "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth," a traveling survey recently at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, could possibly add to the dialogue. The answer: both not much and a whole lot.
Positing the artist's inquiry into spirituality--a Sisyphean search for heaven in particular--as a key to understanding his symbolically rich, historically layered oeuvre, curator Michael Auping organized a deeply engrossing, thematically focused survey. One way to begin considering this exhibition is to remember Kiefer's 1987 touring retrospective and the accompanying ...