Bettina Meyer Form I -Goldkind 1999 Bronze 94 x 110 x 50cm Bettina Meyer’s Gold Child, a bronze sculpture hangs down from the ceiling. The sculpture is a torso, an anonymous figure, and a body metaphor all in one. The voluminous and soft rendering, the sleek and polished surface makes the sculpture „beautiful“ and as such an objekt of desire. On top of this, the way it is hanged upside down makes it even more fascinating. Is this an acrobat or an astronaut? In both cases the upside down position indicates a trouble and the dangling can be a sign of jeopardy as well. Meyer presents an impossibility, a world turned on ist head and signifies the human figure as the nominal subject of this see-no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel situation; yet the figure reflects such joie de vivre and potency that can be convinced of its conquest. Beral Madras Fenster schließen