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Daily bread

by Anthony Cragg


aluminium cast 500 cm x 350 cm x 850 cm
197 x 138 x 335 in.

Production management for Werkstatt Kollerschlag by Joachim Eckl

September 1994
Merkur Zentrale/Wiener Neustadt

 

The title alludes to what happens in the surroundings, an everyday scene from the customer parking lot of a supermarket chain. The work, consisting of 200 dolls with movable limbs, forms a couple, two figures that blend together, navigating through the landscape and on the lookout. They are symbolic of a joint existential struggle in a very primal sense.