Katharina Fritsch (*1956)

Various different internal images which could come from childhood, which reflect something seen or dreamt as well as describing impressions and experiences, form the basis of all of Katharina Fritsch’s works. In Man and Mouse, it is the experience of a nightmare. The sculpture seems to show the moment just before the sudden awakening from a dream in which the nightmare leaves one almost breathless. The production of such universally valid images, with power and significance, if the goal of artistic activity. The artist places particular value on the spheres of the private and the universal, the subjective and the collective, and tries to structure her images as a prototype for the various facets of human existence and emotion. ___