Ruins Color

“The dreamlike world in Matuschka’s work is an exploration of flesh and steel, of the supple and mysterious container of the feminine torso against the cold sharpness of broken glass and peeling paint. All is in Ruin. The passion of life has degenerated and has been abandoned like an empty apartment with the wind passing through a broken window.”
Jay Spica 1989
Freesia Magazine

“I still can not abandon the Ruins. Perhaps I’m still trying to stack deck chairs on the Titanic, but the search for meaning begins where hope and helplessness collide.”
Matuschka 1989

1987-1991
35 mm color film
16 x 20” prints by the artist
editions of 40 or 100

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