Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles 1999

Curator: Anselm Kiefer's monumental artwork, "Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles," resides here at the Tate. Editor: It feels like staring into a shattered night sky, all dense texture and fragmented light. There's a definite sense of melancholy. Curator: Kiefer often grapples with history and memory, layering materials like lead and emulsion to create these incredibly tactile surfaces. The lines connect names, perhaps constellations or figures. Editor: The composition is intriguing. The lines create a kind of narrative structure, but the material chaos beneath disrupts any easy reading. What do you make of that interplay? Curator: I see a reflection of how history itself is constructed – fragments pieced together, often obscuring as much as they reveal. It invites a meditative state, I feel. Editor: Yes, the artwork invites a sense of contemplation. A very somber, yet powerful piece.