Artes Magazine

Mass MoCA and Anselm Kiefer: Agony’s Chapel
Juni 11, 2015
The wreckage is confined as if it were a crime scene display, solitary in a warehouse, awaiting the jury's visit. This the antechamber to the installation of work by Anselm Kiefer now in place at MASS MoCA for the coming decade. The building on the former factory complex that was converted to house it was once a water storage tank for nearby boilers, and there is a sense of a pool having been drained to reveal these still decaying fragments on the floor, now making their long return to dust.