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The Ice at Europe's Heart

By Julian Rowe 2013 - 2014

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The installation The Ice at Europe’s Heart examines the improbable links between three works of high Romanticism: Caspar David Friedrich’s lost painting High Mountains (destroyed 1945), Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, and FW Murnau’s vampire film Nosferatu. The installation comprises three triptych assemblages, four display cases and a sequence of nine videos
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