Volker Tiemann

Big Wave, 1995

A wave only appears to spill over the rim of a tilted plastic tub, because quite evidently the supposed wave is solid. It was carved from wood and then painted. The water is in motion, but still solidified. Here, the shapes of the waves appear just as reluctant to fit into a laundry tub as the crests of white spray. We are apparently confronted instead with a primordial force that seems strangely penned in. In his piece entitled “Big Wave”, Volker Tiemann refers to one of the most famous works i...

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MKdW (2014, erworben vom Künstler).
Volker Tiemann. Ein Teil für das Ganze, Ausst.-Kat. Galerie Kunst & Co, Flensburg 2000, Abb.
Anordnung und Klarheit – Volker Tiemann, Ausst.-Kat. Galerie im Marstall, Ahrensburg 2013, S. 13, Abb. S. 46f.

Volker Tiemann (*1963)

Big Wave

1995

Holz, Plastikwanne, Stoff, Farbe

Object: 170 x 140 x 70 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 15 TIE 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2014

Not on display

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