response

(Chelsey)Das Bett, Katharina Grosse, 2004, Acrylic on various objects       Das Bett screams 90’s for me, it is unusual because it brings back a sense of abandonment and almost chaos. It adopts this sense of being left behind, the nostalgia of the book stacks and CD player covered in this acrylic “dust” so to speak but the acrylic is colored as to bring some life back into the era. I feel the artist really wanted to express the feeling of leaving the past behind and the feelings that come with it because of her use of darker colors layered over one another in no apparent pattern as though the piece was a messy release of feelings. I would say her methods of execution were found and addition because she uses objects that already exist in the environment and then builds on them, like stacking books and materials, then spray painting them. It makes me feel nostalgic and slightly sad because we will never get the past memories of our life back to relive so we recreate a moment for the feeling.