Anne Wenzel positions her monumental ceramic images in dramatic settings. The figures and objects often seem to be taken from fairy tales, myths and sagas, but - twisted and broken - they are realized in gothic black. Wenzel applies an idiom, fraught with geography and history, to visualize the powerlessness and desolation of threats lurking behind the reality of every day's life. Websites: www.annewenzel.nl and www.akinci.nl
Anne Wenzel SILENT LANDSCAPE 2006 Ceramics, water, wood, paint Wall painting: Indian ink 160 x 300 x 500 cm Photograph: John Stoel Courtesy Galerie Tatjana Pieters, One Twenty, Gent, Belgium
Anne Wenzel UNTITLED (Chandelier) 2007 Ceramics, metal 270 x 165 x 168 cm Photograph: John Stoel Courtesy Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam