Posthuman Dance of Death, 2017

MARGRET EICHER

 

 

EUR 28,000 + VAT

 

Posthuman Dance of Death, 2017 

 

Digital collage, jacquard fabric

270 x 340 cm

 

About this work

 

A rabbit-eared character holds her phone aloft: the epitome of the post-modern, perhaps, emphasizing how, in Mark Gisborne’s words her work represents a shift from ‘the sacrosanct hierarchical culture’ based on status at birth, in place, when courtly tapestries were made, to ‘the horizontal popular and consumer culture’ of a world in which people attain their status materially. That change can reasonably be celebrated, but the prevalence of cartoon monsters and grinning skulls suggest that the post-modern is no paradise.

MARGRET EICHER BIOGRAPHY

Margret Eicher (born Viersen, Germany 1955) coined the term ‘Copy Collage’ for her way of extracting reproductions from various contemporary contexts – fashion, advertising, art, glamour – and putting them together on a computer to form large patterns inspired by art history. These combinations are sent to the Jacquard Tapestry looms in Belgium to become large tapestries which Harald Kunde has called ‘a maelstrom of hybrid seduction’. By that means, the image carrier historically associated with courtly representation and mythological legitimation of the ruling families, is applied to the celebrity culture of our times: the traditional, heavy and static meets the superficial, lightweight and fast-moving.

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EUR 23,000 + VAT