Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer, the big daddy of memorial painting, is not the kind of artist for whom a new show means new ideas and forms. Here we have further disfigured landscapes, where themes are as cumbersome as the drag of mud-thick paint. While his work rebuffs the contemporary world and its lighter-than-matter, thought-quick information revolution, it also lags behind. Mighty it may be, but his old-school monumentalism has nowhere to go. (SS)