Kerstin Roolfs German-American, b. 1965
GlobalBeings 1-6, 2001
Oil on canvas
98 x 71 in. (249 x 180 cm)
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GlobalBeings 1–6 is part of Kerstin Roolfs’s early and conceptually charged series inspired by Plato’s Symposium, particularly Aristophanes’ myth of split humans searching for their other halves. Layered with anatomical...
GlobalBeings 1–6 is part of Kerstin Roolfs’s early and conceptually charged series inspired by Plato’s Symposium, particularly Aristophanes’ myth of split humans searching for their other halves. Layered with anatomical observations from the pathology department of Berlin’s Charité hospital, the painting is a meditation on human form, unity, and longing.