![]() Confronted with a woozy moon so close to earth, some parkgoers might have asked themselves, “Have I gone crazy?”-a fitting question considering that Genzken once declared herself “the only female fool.” Vollmond was at once a witty précis of her career and a daring self-portrait. Drunkenness and madness have long been associated with the moon, Genzken wrote in a text published when the sculpture, Vollmond, debuted. Here, in Westphalia, the zone was deliberately soused, Hölderlin after a few pints. It was a familiar gesture for an artist who tends to cultivate “a zone of uncertainty” around her sculpture, as Birgit Pelzer, one of her earliest critics, commented in 1979. For parkgoers it was as if they had stepped into the era of Romanticism, with its haunted lunar fixation, only the vision was doubled. ![]() One was smaller but no less bright, a frosted glass orb lofted over a patch of trees on a tall steel pole that its creator, the artist Isa Genzken, had erected on the shore of Lake Aasee. On a June night in 1997, two full moons appeared over the German town of Münster.
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