Die Rippe, 2025
| Height | 77 cm |
|---|---|
| Width | 97 cm |
| Length/Depth | 2 cm |
Franz von Stuck’s work *Die Wippe* (1898) depicts two female figures on a beam. Von Stuck clearly draws on an erotic genre⁶, as the shape of the beam can unmistakably be interpreted as a phallic symbol. Whilst one woman is shown in a slipped red dress with her breast exposed, the other is naked and kneeling facing the beam.
*The Rib* breaks with this composition. Although the two figures allude to von Stuck’s painting, they are not seesawing on a log but – as the title suggests – on a rib. This evokes the biblical creation story of Adam and Eve, in which the woman is formed from the man’s rib (Genesis 2:21–23). By being sewn into the canvas and highlighted, the rib takes on an almost sculptural three-dimensionality. The stitching suggests that stories can be constructed and reassembled.
Material:
Oil on canvas
Technique:
Painting and sewing
Shipping:
The artwork will be shipped stretched onto a stretcher frame, complete with a fitted shadow-gap frame – including a certificate of authenticity and the artist’s signature on the reverse.
Sarah Milena Weiss
In her
artistic practice, she explores the construction of history and stories, and the power of the gaze. Her work
often takes its starting point from works of art history, which she appropriates, fragments and reconfigures into new constellations.
She works with oil painting and sewn canvases.
Other artworks by the artist
![[ohne Titel] - Sarah Weiß 2](https://studenten-kunstmarkt.cstatic.io/media/d8/7a/23/1770554188/sarah-weiss-ohne-titel-2-019c3d40da6971d29cb1d572444212af.jpg "[ohne Titel], 2025 - Sarah Weiß")
