October 27, 2000
Transromantik
CATHY WARD & ERIC WRIGHT
October 27th – November 25th
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A fantasy forest of trees stripped to the bone, painted and adorned with talismanic idylls and magical objects; spectacular, escapist fantasies and fairy tale castles, invested with the seductive and disturbing power of classical Romanticism, evoking bowers where “mad” King Ludwig II and Walt Disney sit together in hyper-real pastorals more perfect than nature itself.
Ward & Wright’s lyrical forest is a radically joyous exploration of how the revisionism involved in popular myth-making adopts the sugar-glazed guise of candy-coloured artifice.
Inspired by a “revelation” in the Hofbraufhaus, Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany, TransRomantik is an ambitious journey into the darkness at the heart of “innocence”.
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