The Leipzig artist Neo Rauch was so captivated by Riccardo Chailly’s Mahler cycle that he went home and produced covers for the forthcoming DVD releases. Â This is the Resurrection Symphony
and this the Symphony of 1,000, quite the most immaculate performance I have ever experienced..
It is going to be very hard to walk past a record shop window – if you still hve a record shop – without noticing these vivid images. Yet they do seem to belong to another time – not even to Mahler’s time, but to Schumann’s, or even Schubert’s.
Is this faux-naiveté, or something simpler? Judge for yourselves. Rauch, 51, seems to occupy a niche midway between Socialist Realism and Surrealism.
I just plain don’t “get” them, Norman. God awful…
On the style of Clovis Trouille…
I rather like the concepts, but I’d be much more impressed if he knew how to draw.