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Article: An Alchemist of our Time.(Montréal)(Anselm Kiefer)
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- Etc. Montreal
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- September 1, 2006
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Anselm Kiefer, Heaven and Earth, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Curator :Paulette Gagnon. 11 February - 30 April, 20061
> If the initial lines of Thomas Pynchon's magnum opus, Gravity's Rainbow, came to mind as one entered the Kiefer exhibition halls, it was not without equal measures of reason and poetry.
This welcome and long-overdue exhibition, in fact the first-ever significant showing of Kiefer's production in Canada, included some 40 works executed between 1969 and 2005. On display were paintings, books, lead sculptures and sundry works on paper, giving the viewer a sense of the full measure of Kiefer's achievement.
Resonant with ...