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|| ARTWORK || Tabernakel No.3 & The Last God | Christian Lemmerz

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Installation view of “The Red Bean Grows in the South”, Faurschou Foundation, New York, 2019, The Last God, Christian Lemmerz, 2005, Statuario marble, 13 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 24 7/16 in photos by Tom Powel © Faurschou Foundation

Christian Lemmerz' marble sculptures The Last God and Tabernakel No. 3 are exhibited in our current show in New York.

Installation view of “The Red Bean Grows in the South”, Faurschou Foundation, New York, 2019,Tabernakel No.3, Christian Lemmerz, 2005, Statuario marble, 13 3/4 x 12 1/2 x 24 7/16 in photos by Tom Powel © Faurschou Foundation

Tabernakel No. 3 is an intricately carved piece of drapery, which appears to outline the shape of a foot. The white drapery hints at causalities of war and natural disasters, the footage of which often shows bodies and even body parts that are wrapped in cloth in an attempts to hide the horrors from the viewer. At the same time, The title of the work refers to the tabernacle, which is used biblically to describe a tent-like structure, enclosed by linen curtains, where a divine presence is believed to dwell.

The Last God is a tall, ghostly figure, draped from head to toe in a long, white cloth. The figure is hooded, simultaneously veiled and unveiled to the viewer, as the cloth of marble outlines, yet hides its entire appearance. The post of the sculpture is reminiscent to that of the Danish sculptor Berthel Thorvaldsen’s marble sculpture Christ, which was created for The Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen in 1821. The Last God also alludes to Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin’s painting Isle of the Dead(1880), in which either a recently deceased, or death itself, is depicted. In Böcklin’s painting, this figure is similarly shrouded in white cloth. As with Tabernakel No.3, the title The Last God points to the idea of a divine presence. Here, however, the last god could be interpreted as the extinction of a belief system, leaving only one “Last God” standing.

About Artist

Christian Lemmerz was born in 1959 in Karlsruhe, Germany, and trained as a sculptor in Denmark and Italy, where he lives and works today. His practice ranges from drawings and sculptures to installations, video art, Virtual reality art, theatre, and performances. The medium of marble plays an important role in Lemmerz’s oeuvre. The word marble derives from the Greek “marmaron”, meaning crystalline rock, shining stone; most likely from the verb “marmairo”: to flash, sparkle, gleam in the light. From antiquity to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the materiality of marble has been associated with qualities of reflection, bedazzlement and transformation. In his sculptures Lemmerz solidifies the “liquid” beauty of the classical stone into terrible motives, confronting the viewer with themes of death, mutilation, catastrophes and war-topics that most people prefer to leave unexamined and repressed.

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