STEPHAN MARIENFELD

Stephan Marienfeld, (1966)
He is a German artist who studied with Tony Cragg and for many years, was Tony Cragg’s assistant and ‘‘right-hand man’’.
 

Marienfeld’s series of ''Bondage-Objekte'' play with the subject of nudity without showing human bodies: ''The round objects in glossy black, white or also in pink are bound together with cords and suggest erotic tension.'' The rough rope cuts through the shining, polished form with unmistakable presence and finality that gives to this abstract nude an interpenetrating, ambivalent eroticism. The directness of the contrast that is created by the clash of forms and surfaces that belong to the figurative element and to the chaining medium raises questions of devotion and control, perfection and breaking. 

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