Anne Wenzel - Texts

Texts

Statues Die / Also

Selen Ansen
Publication Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator)
At the beginning of the 20th century / the nations of Europe are engulfed by war and art historian Aby Warburg loses his mind. Plagued by hallucinations, he is persuaded to ingest the flesh of his offspring / just as the god Saturn devoured his sons one by one. Aby's folly was dispelled following his lecture on the "Serpent Ritual" (1923), which he gave to an assembly of "mad doctors" at the psychiatric clinic where he himself was interned. ...

The Fight

A conversation between the artist Anne Wenzel, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam’s (former) director Deirdre Carasso and curator Selen Ansen.
This text is an edited and abridged version of the conversation that took place inside the boxing ring of Boxingschool de Jong on 3 December 2021.
The text was published as part of Carte Blanche (Fuck The Dictator, 2023

The Bacon Project

Listening to Francis Bacon
During the first lockdown, when everything became silent, Anne Wenzel took the decision to consider this extra time as a gift and to use this time for something she had already for a long time in her mind: she wanted to do studie after the work of Francis Bacon.
Art critic and writer Sacha Bronwasser talked with Anne Wenzel in her studio about the proces of making and thinking.

A monument to a forgotten war history

Sandra Smets
On November 10, 2022, it was 78 years ago that on November 10 and 11, 1944, about 52.000 men aged 17 to 40 were deported during the raid in Rotterdam. Sandra Smets was commissioned by BKOR to write an essay on the occasion of the annual commemoration following the presentation of Anne Wenzel's final design for the Razzia Monument in Rotterdam.

Since We Must Fall

Selen Ansen
Not All That Falls Has Wings
Catalogue Arter Istanbul
The relationship we establish with the object of our gaze is a question that becomes all the more crucial in the presence of a disaster and its images. The issue is commonly formulated on an ethical level as the duty to position oneself ...

Petrifying...

Daria de Beauvais
Monograph 'Prospect of Perception'
Petrifying: that is the word that could be used to describe Anne Wenzel's works. Her sculptures, petrifying both in their grace and their frightfulness, cannot leave us indifferent. Reptiles that have been turned into statues, they arrest our gaze, transfix it, make it turn ...

RESIST, FLEE OR PARTICIPATE?

Manon Braat, Kunstbeeld 05-2010
In the middle of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen lies a commemorative space bedecked with heavy ceramic floral wreaths. "Requiem of Heroism" by artist Anne Wenzel is a contemporary memorial that inevitably evokes passionate associations...

Anne Wenzel - The Opaque Palace

Saskia van Kampen-Prein
Column 27-02-14
In this column I would like to take you back to February 2010. It is evening and the courtyard of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen is brightly illuminated by several construction lamps. The characteristic black and white stripes on the museum concourse look very dramatic in this light. Suddenly a group...

Anne Wenzel - Her Dark Material

Richard Leydier
Artpress, Nr.354, march 2009
Based since 1992 in the Netherlands, German-born Anne Wenzel diverts the tradition of ceramics into remarkable sculptures and installations. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks and apocalyptic obsessions inspire these dark works that are...

Letter to Anne Wenzel

Philippe Van Cauteren
Monograph 'Sweet Life, Anne Wenzel'
Last year I purchased your sculpture 'Untitled (red deer)' from 2005 for the collection of the museum of which I am artistic director. It took almost six months before I eventually decided to acquire the piece for the collection of the S.M.A.K. Not because I began to...

I am also still unsure about how beauty and violence can come together again.

Bart Rutten in converstation with Anne Wenzel, Monograph 'Sweet Life'
BR: I would like to talk to you about inspiration. Previously, we spoke at length about the painter Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873). Could you tell me something about, for instance, the disasters that you've represented?
AW: I have some photos here of the ...

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