ANSELM KIEFER’S BICYCLE

I thought a short video of Anselm Kiefer bicycling through his vast studio could be an interesting jumping-off point for ideas about space, scale, gigantism, vanishing, and places where people are more insignificant than we’d like to believe. What if normal spaces could be blown up, “super-sized” into something so large that you’d get lost, like a bed where you sleep someplace different every night for a year, or go sailing when you’re in the tub taking a bath, or have a car that seats you’re own personal marching band. In addition to questioning the perception of space, Anselm Kiefer’s Bicycle also explores the origin of the artist, who, as a young boy, grew up surrounded by the devastation of post-war Germany in the town of Donaueschingen, which was reduced to rubble by aerial bombardment.