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Kasper Bosmans – KYIV COLOURS
kuratiert von Jonas Schenk
Power, historically, has never simply ruled — it has served looks. Diplomacy learned to seduce; justice learned to intimidate — both, it turns out, through the same instinct for spectacle. In Amber Room and Star Chamber (Kyiv Colours), Kasper Bosmans superimposes two such costumes of authority — the Amber Room, gifted by Frederick of Prussia to Peter the Great in 1717 to cement a military alliance, and the Star Chamber, the secretive English court whose starred ceiling presided over the arbitrary punishment of the politically inconvenient — into a single, gleaming surface of wallpaper, amber, and plexiglass. (...)
Photo: Cornelis Gollhardt
kuratiert von Jonas Schenk
Power, historically, has never simply ruled — it has served looks. Diplomacy learned to seduce; justice learned to intimidate — both, it turns out, through the same instinct for spectacle. In Amber Room and Star Chamber (Kyiv Colours), Kasper Bosmans superimposes two such costumes of authority — the Amber Room, gifted by Frederick of Prussia to Peter the Great in 1717 to cement a military alliance, and the Star Chamber, the secretive English court whose starred ceiling presided over the arbitrary punishment of the politically inconvenient — into a single, gleaming surface of wallpaper, amber, and plexiglass. (...)
Photo: Cornelis Gollhardt
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