Brigitte Maria Mayer

Anatomie Titus: Fall of Rome

Brigitte Maria Mayer: Anatomie Titus: Fall of Rome video installation premiered at the Berlin Academy of Arts in April, 2009.

"An adventurous, independently designed work on the process of civilization, the collateral damages of progress, and everyday media overflow." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The artist traces a via dolorosa through the modern world in a timely new video based on Heiner Müller's excoriating 1984 adaptation of Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare's blood-soaked revenge drama. Presented as a triptych that is as lyrical as it is terrifying, Mayer's piece extends Müller's parable to a global narrative of contemporary empire in which footage shot on locations across Africa and Asia is contrasted against highly stylized in-studio passages featuring cinema icon Jeanne Moreau (appearing as Goth queen Tamora). Müller, the most provocative playwright of the erstwhile East Germany, used his commentary to address imperial violence and the fateful cycle of brutality it begets; Mayer's Anatomie Titus reminds us that those concerns remain just as relevant today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

9/11

Work Date: 2003
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 3
Size: 120 x 60 cm / 47.2 x 23.6 in
Additional information: From The Meiningen project

The Beginning

Work Date:1999
Materials: Cibachrome print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 3
Size: 120 x 40 cm / 47.2 x 15.7 in
Additional information: From Color Spaces project (orange)

Women

Work Date: 1998
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 120 x 50 cm / 47.2 x 19.7 in (each)
Additional information: A diptych. From Color Spaces project (orange)

Caroline

Work Date: 2002
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 120 x 50 cm / 47.2 x 19.7 in
Additional information: From Color Spaces project (blue)

Kain and Abel

Work Date: 2003
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 120 x 70 cm / 47.2 x 27.5 in
Additional information: From The Meiningen project

Crucifixion

Work Date: 1998
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 120 x 30 cm / 47.2 x 12 in
Additional information: From Color Spaces project (orange)

Descent

Work Date: 2002
Materials: Light box
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 60 x 50 cm / 23.5 x 19.5 in
Additional information: From Color Spaces project (blue)

Figure 1

Work Date: 1998
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 120 x 40 cm / 40 x 15, 9 in
Additional information: From Color Spaces project (orange)

War

Work Date: 2006
Materials: Lambda print with diasec face mount
Markings: Signed and numbered
Edition: 6
Size: 120 x 70 cm / 40 x 27, 5 in
Additional information: From Color Spaces project (white)