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Time Guardians
Cloaked in concrete-like or otherwise putrid variegated cloth, Manfred posse- they’re decaying morosely in the open, guarding time in an
Kielnhofer’s “time guardians” seem to be plotting against time or esoteric Disneyland of sinister and unsavory folds. Their significance
maybe avidly watching time television- is that a medieval joke or or arthistorical relevance lies in the eye of the beholder. Regardless,
what? Like conspiratory monks in a deathless desultory demeanor, they are meant to evoke ancient times in their secretive hocus-pocus
they exude an ominous lack of life as if in a ghost parade freshly despondency, allegedly and all the more uncannily. Draped in mute
arisen from the depths of the Artpark crypt. They blatantly stand here, and unholy light, they seem to be placidly heralding the big world
gnarled and unfazed, making time. Are we lost in a movie, “Lord of conspiracy, admonishing and demolishing time concepts. Equivocally,
the ring”- wise or is it a gathering of the Adams family in new Taliban Kielnhofer’s work is a tribute to life and death, entwined, dilated
unglamourous style? So welcome to the new dark ages. Kielnhofer’s and lost in time. The “time guardians” are maybe hooded knights
“time guardians” stand like silent monoliths of veiled knowledge in a in disguise, hiding the light within the moldy creases of their robes,
sculpture garden, seemingly quarantined or time travelling, the only fighting without armor against time.
prop missing is the scythe. The grim reaper has come with his zombie Catherine Pandora