‘’FIRE TO ASHES, ASHES TO THE EARTH’’
NECKAR DOL
05.04.24 - 27.04.24
Popular or familiar images
Like faces already encountered in the past. Everything blends together
Old things are reborn.
Those that are reborn eventually perish,
like returning to life,
like returning from the dead
An infinite loop between life and death
The never ending story
Old fires leave ashes, and ashes return to the earth
"In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.
Houses live and die: there is a time for building
And a time for living and for generation
And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane
And to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trots
And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto."
-Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940), T.S Eliot
Neckar Doll received his DNSEP from la Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Mulhouse, France in 2019. Recent group shows include Lo Brutto Stahl, Paris, France (2023); Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (2023); Groc Project, Barcelona, Spain (2022); PANE Project & Like a Little Disaster (2021); BSMNT Gallery with Essenza Club, Leipzig, Germany (2020).
