Walter Gramming
«Groszgene»

Walter Gramming transforms artistic and biographical elements of George Grosz' visual world into a lavish studio production. He transposes Grosz's expressive techniques as a painter and the social criticism conveyed in his work into a concentrated sequence of scenes, full of violence and sexuality, set in an urban environment that includes the artist's German and American periods. The topos of the city, the industrialisation and anonymity, but also the simultaneousness of perception and illusion, is of central importance not only to Grosz, but also to the history of Berlin. In this commission for the Berlin exhibition 'Mythos Berlin', in which the tape was presented in a steel installation, Gramming delivers a stylistically complex videographic essay.

Rudolf Frieling