Room 11
Tetsumi Kudo
Born into the post-atomic world, Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo creates a vision of human disintegration in an ecologically careless world. Nature has no place in this violent contraposition unless it is dying, hence the rotting body parts and limp organic material.
Gerhard Richter, Tom Phillips, Andrea Sottile
In the centre of the room you will see et consumimur igni by Andrea Sottile. The whole work consists of 6300 wooden images made using the flame of a lighter. It took him over ten years to make it (1997-2007).
Between the windows is another Tom Phillip from his final Conjectured Pictures series.
To the right of the window is a Gerhard Richter that is part of the Grau Bild series first exhibited at the 1972 Biennale. These show erased images of illustrious men, mountains and jungles.
Richard Hamilton, Hamish Fulton
The two Fashion Plates are by the English artist Richard Hamilton, the father of Pop Art. In between them is a photograph by Hamish Fulton.
Terry Winters
The other three works in the room are by New York artist Terry Winters, who in the early 1980s
painted large works depicting microscopic fossil remains and other organic matter.
The glass slab
The glass slab on the floor at the end of the room reveals a part of the structure of the palace. You can see that an entire forest of ancient trees was used to build the floor upon which you walk.